Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What measures of Disarmament Britain was willing to undertake were put forward by suave Sir John Simon in a long and unctuous speech in which were embedded two plums: the abolition of poison gas and the submarine. Looking directly at the French delegates Sir John added: "That the peace of the world is to be secured by preparing for war, is no longer believed by anybody, for recent history manifestly disproves...
...Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, long ago assigned the infantile paralysis problem to himself. He announced that what he suspected is almost certainly true?the virus of the disease gets into the system through the mucous membranes of the nose and upper throat...
...Some onetime newsboys: Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Roy Wilson Howard, Henry Latham Doherty, John Haydock Carroll, Thomas Alva Edison, William Wrigley Jr., Adolph Simon Ochs, Edward William...
EYES ON RUSSIA-Margaret Bourke-White-Simon & Schuster...
...Tobermory Bay, off the :est coast of Scotland, dredging still goes on for the lost treasure of the Armada galleon Florencia. On Oak Island, Nova Scotia, a treasure was actually discovered in a 153-ft. shaft which, promptly flooded, defied all attempts to drain it. Last fortnight Inventor Simon Lake was in the newspapers with an elaborate plan and a ong steel tube to salvage the millions hat went down in the purser's strong room in the Lusitania...