Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could win pacifist votes for the Conservative Party; and 2) a veteran statesman who could unobtrusively do such dirty work in foreign policy as might be necessary. He appointed handsome young Anthony Eden to the completely new office of Secretary for League of Nations Affairs and put in Sir Samuel Hoare as Foreign Secretary...
...Eden, quickly popularized as a sort of League of Nations Knight-in-Shining-Armor. was a big factor in enabling Conservative Party Leader Baldwin to win the next General Election. Meanwhile, Sir Samuel Hoare and French Premier Pierre Laval were privately engaged on a deal to condone Italy's seizure of Ethiopia. The Hoare-Laval "Deal" leaked into the news a few days before its makers were ready to present it to the public as a high-minded effort to make peace on the basis of joint Anglo-French-Italian "carrying of Civilization to the barbarians of Ethiopia...
...scholar who takes great interest in illegitimate births is Zoologist Samuel Jackson Holmes of the University of California. Last week he announced his analysis of the Census Bureau's latest annual (1934) survey of U. S. bastardy. In that year out of every 1,000 childbirths, 39 babieS were born out of wedlock. Some 35,000 of them were white (20.4 per 1,000 births), 43.000 black (151.5 per 1,000 births). That was just about what Professor Holmes expected...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury, 59, rector of St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., since 1911; of heart failure; in Boston. Passionately loved, feared, hated by his pupils, "The Rector" once said that American boarding schools, "if they wreck, will break not on the rock of scholarship, but on the shoals of snobbery...
Blaring a welcome period to the weary era of super-colossal musical films, "The Goldwyn Folliers" turns out to be one of those movies which is significant not only for what "couth" Samuel Goldwin has put into the show which bears his name, but also for what he leaves out--namely, a plot. Rows of chorus girls, silvery glitter, and shiny floors are here replaced by the ballet and the opera, both excellently handled. Added to this are Charlie McCarthy, making his full-length movie debut, and the whacky Ritz Brothers, who, as usual, hold their own on the comedy...