Word: rushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Commons: Swayed by Sunday's jeers, the Cabinet on Monday are in full retreat from their original position of attempting to rush His Majesty off the British Throne. The Prime Minister makes an astonishing statement that his previous announcement of the Cabinet's absolute refusal to assist in arranging a morganatic marriage had no reference to the King's ever having been officially advised by the Cabinet to do or refrain from doing anything. "All my conversations with His Majesty," says Mr. Baldwin, "have been strictly personal and informal. . . . These matters were not raised first...
...knew Mr. Baldwin had had with Edward VIII was unprecedentedly omitted from mention in the royal Court Circular next morning. British public life moves with such regularity in its accustomed grooves that for the Prime Minister, suddenly by telegraph, to summon members of his Cabinet to drop everything and rush to meet him at No. 10 Downing Street is a sign that the Empire is facing a national crisis comparable to threatened war and the Prime Minister gave that sign last week. He followed it by conferring with the Leader of the Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee...
...Tsar Will Hays, John Boettiger was told to make the P-I the "best paper in town." In Seattle, he will find himself in one of the most colorful cities of the U. S. Settled in 1851, a railhead by 1883, headed for civic greatness with the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, Seattle is now 19th U. S. port of entry, still retains the breezy style of prospecting days. Owning its utilities, seat of the Uni versity of Washington (this year's West Coast representative for the Rose Bowl), Seattle still produces characters like the late eccentric Congressman Marion...
...sentences, starting up a hundred promising stories that he does not follow. Nothing holds the characters together except that they all live in Tuttle, so that whenever readers grow interested in one individual he fades into the crowd, leaving an impression as confusing as glimpses of a rush hour as seen by a stranger in town...
...whole French Cabinet went to Lille for its Mayor's state funeral and all the way from England came the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, as the proletariat chanted, "Fascists are Assassins!" With tears streaming down his cheeks, Premier Blum promised to rush onto French statute books a law modeled on the British law of libel, strictest in the world. "Roger Salengro would not have asked any other vengeance!" explained M. Blum, who seemed to think that unless he took such "vengeance" upon French newspaper proprietors the mob might rend them limb from...