Word: simon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appleton Chappleton overflows. --SIMPLE SIMON...
...Simon Bolivar's dream of a closely-knit union of Pan-American states faded when only four delegates appeared at his first conference in 1826. The notion persisted, however, and inspired the first American International conference called by the United States fifty years later. That and succeeding conferences failed alike to produce a union, and probably nothing definite of that sort will result from the fifth Pan-American Conference, now in session at Santiago...
...House Sir John Simon (Asquith liberal) asked "whether happy acquiescence is still to be the keynote of British policy? " Mr. Asquith and Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, former Minister of Education, also criticized the Government's policy toward the Ruhr. Mr. Bonar Law did not reply, but Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the Government, stated that its policy was unchanged and that mediation in the Ruhr was at present impossible. On a division of the House, ostensibly on account of a civil service vote, the Government secured a majority of only...
...Simon Flexner, of the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. William H. Park, director of the New York City Health Department Laboratory, Dr. Walter Niles, dean of Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Mathias Nicoll, Jr., Deputy State Health Commissioner, and other scientific men declared in favor of continued experimentation. " The origin of these bills," Dr. Flexner declared, " is based on ignorance. If enacted into law they would strike at the roots of development in medical science...
...went down perceptibly " in art, while France advanced. He believe the chief talent in England today to be that of an American, John Sargent. After him come the English painters, Augustus John and Sir William Orpen. In France, where "the extremists are dwindling," there are Guillaumin, Signac, Lerolle, Flandrin, Simon, and many others. He bases his conclusions on observations made in Europe in connection with the open-ing next spring of the International Exhibition at the Institute...