Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Allsebrook Simon is tall, bland, very British. The breadth of his shoulders is accentuated by a neck long yet not too long. Smooth and pink, the face of his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs takes on at will an innocent, babyish expression, flashes his "lightning smile" or congeals into withering hauteur. Throughout the Empire "John," as his few intimates call him, is famed as Britain's most highly remunerated barrister. Slow in walk and gesture he is lightning quick of mind and he is tireless. Last week he became Chairman of the League of Nations...
...Simon v. Davis, Meanwhile Sir John Allsebrook Simon had flown from London to Geneva. As he entered the Hotel des Bergues he was pounced upon by Norman H. Davis, U. S. Delegate to the Geneva Disarmament Conference, who angrily protested assertions in the House of Commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain giving the impression that the U. S. Disarmament Delegates had been consulted about the various Lausanne agreements and had tacitly approved them...
...regular subscriber and admiring reader of TIME will you permit me to call your attention to an article on p. 67 of the Carnegie Maga zine for June entitled "Locating Ambassador Mellon," in which there appears a letter and a memorandum from Sir John Simon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, showing that the proper designation of the post held by Ambassador Mellon is the Court of St. James...
...reason for thus addressing you is that I have observed a practice in recent numbers of TIME of referring to this post as the Court of St. James's and you will note from Sir John Simon's statement that since December, 1913, that form has been abandoned...
BLONDE INTERLUDE-Bourke Lee -Simon & Schuster ($2). The publishers' first step in bringing out "well-written novels, entertainment their sole purpose." Theme: twelve swirling New York months, better than the title sounds...