Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer and Inner Cabinet confidant, Sir John Simon, is cold and devious, a lawyer whose poker face and ambiguous, clausy rhetoric are well adapted to muddling through. Devious and poker-faced as ever last week, Sir John took steps definite enough to jolt the bowler-hatted businessmen of London's "City." He mobilized the Bank of England and the London Stock Exchange to impose "Simon's unofficial ban" on British buying of U. S. securities...
...England, traditionally the world's banker, and for Wall Street, now the world's safe deposit box, Sir John Simon's order to investors to "Buy British" recorded another portentous retreat from the free capitalism of Adam Smith. Under it, Britain found that capital export opened markets, expanded prosperity across national boundaries, employed surplus British wealth. Today, British capital is no longer exported in this sense; it flees, and its flight is at this time a drain on national resources...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer, eloquent William Ewart Gladstone made budget speeches famous. Winston Churchill used to gesture a lot. Neville Chamberlain (now Prime Minister) usually had the amiable duty of announcing surpluses. To Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer for nearly two years, has come the unenviable task of "opening" the largest peacetime budgets in Britain's history. Last week, before a crowded House of Commons, he again appeared with the little worn red-leather dispatch box carried by Gladstone, opened it and ceremoniously drew out his sheafs of paper and, in an uninspired, low, monotonous tone...
...work as a proofreader on the local paper, rose to write funeral notices, sports, a column. Smith saw the U. S. as an itinerant reporter, worked five years for United Press as a feature writer, landed on the Telegram three years ago. He once began an interview with Cinemactress Simone Simon thus: "Your reporter walked straight up to her, without so much as a hello, and tickled her vigorously." When she failed to squeal Reporter Smith quoted a Hollywood report that she was ticklish. Replied Actress Simon: "It depends on who the tickling does." Five years ago, when President Roosevelt...
...Wisconsin, where he will become a Franciscan monk, went painfully popular Father Simon Borkowski. Since last September Father Simon has been "imprisoned" in his Vulcan, Mich. Roman Catholic rectory (TIME, Sept. 5) by picketing parishioners who objected to his bishop's transferring him to another diocese...