Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next saw India as Viceroy it was because of a successful love affair. The second woman, Alice Edith Cohen, who became his first wife, persuaded him to leave a failing career as a stockbroker and study law. Colleagues rate him below his contemporaries Lord Birkenhead and Sir John Simon as a lawyer. They credit his industry (he got up at 4 a. m.), his wit and polish, his amazing memory for figures for the fact that soon after he began practicing he was earning the fashionable income of ?30.000 per year. "Figures spoke to him like poetry to another...
...Rufus Isaacs became Solicitor General and a knight. A few months later he was Attorney General (Sir John Simon was his subordinate). In 1913 he became Lord Chief Justice, the next year a baron. Between those years he had been a lieutenant of David Lloyd George, helped to engineer the House of Lords reform, survived the scandal that threatened to end his career. As Attorney General he approved a contract whereby British Marconi Co. was permitted to construct a chain of wireless stations throughout the Empire. Before the contract was drawn he had bought 10,000 shares in American Marconi...
...pleasant to recall," said British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, "that the new League member encloses within its boundaries the place which was once the Garden of Eden* as well as Bagdad of the immortal 'Arabian Nights.'" Sir John did not mention...
...Most disturbing!" cried British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. "This report is indeed one of undoubted gravity...
...late Lord Asquith was the last legitimate successor to William Ewart Gladstone as Liberal Leader. When Asquith's power began to wane David Lloyd George seized Liberal leadership but he was deserted at the last election by orthodox Liberal Sir Herbert Samuel and unorthodox Liberal Sir John Simon, the latter remaining in the Cabinet last week supported by 35 Liberal...