Word: simon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which were proposed, last week, to the House of Commons by harassed Stanley Baldwin. First came a promise that the Baldwin Government will shortly force reduction of British freight rates on coal, in an effort to stimulate that industry, and relieve unemployment among miners. Second, Mr. Baldwin announced that Simon Joseph Fraser, Baron Lovat, Permanent Undersecretary of the Dominions Office, will shortly set sail for Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to prepare a survey and general plan for integrating the manpower needs of Daughter Dominions with the job needs of Mother Britain. The projects, after being amply aired by Prime...
Soon a U. S. youth will leave for the Belgian Congo, to battle with the tsetse fly. He is Dr. Warren K. Stratman-Thomas, 28, research pharmacologist at the University of Wisconsin, A. B., M. A., Ph. D., M. D., Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation which annually sends 75 young U. S. scholars, scientists, artists, to study in all parts of the world...
BAMBI-A Life in the Woods-Felix Salten-Simon and Schuster ($2.50). Painful in the extreme are animals that talk. Among long-standing exceptions are Aesop's menagerie with their impressive wit, and Br'er Rabbit with his ingenuity. Boasting no such qualifications, Bambi, straightforward story of animal life, is nevertheless another worthy exception. And though the story will also be read to children, the Book-of-the-Month Club has offered it to its subscribers, adults. For aside from interesting data on wild animals (which, not being the very wild animals of Safari, will...
...Simon for Hughes. Not the Congress of the U. S. but its political equivalent, the Parliament of Great Britain, has appointed the Extraordinary Tribunal (TIME, June 18) which was probing, last week, into the suspected employment of third degree methods upon a young woman, Miss Irene Marjory Savidge...
...Charles Evans Hughes but the great British Liberal, Sir John Simon, highest feed London barrister, veteran statesman, and Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission, said: "Every father of an English girl sees in the affair of Miss Savidge an example of police methods which might be applied to his own innocent daughter...