Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Simon, the British Empire's august new Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (see p. 19) toiled most of last week at the congenial task of earning $125.000 by his efforts to win an appeal in the case of famed Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen, sentenced to one year's imprisonment for sponsoring a misleading stock prospectus (TIME, Aug. 10, et ante...
Other Liberals, the two factions who broke away from Mr. Lloyd George under Sir John Simon and Sir Herbert Samuel to support the National Government (TIME, Oct. 19), were uniformly successful in the General Election. Together they won 66 seats, assured Sir John and Sir Herbert places in the revised National Government which Scot MacDonald will soon announce...
...last flight of the season for the Bremen plane and Pilot Fritz Simon & Mechanic Rudolph Wagenknecht would make it remembered through the winter. Their rival brothers, the plane crew of the Europa, had made a record last month by landing the mail in New York 28 hr. ahead of the steamer (TIME, Sept. 21). The Bremen's mail should be there 30 hr. ahead of time. The catapult on the Bremen's sundeck whirred; the plane shot into the sky 1,300 mi. northeast of Ambrose Lightship and flew on into rain, fog & headwind. At dark she alighted...
...third day Pilot Louis Leigh of Maritime Airways Co. of Sydney flew his seaplane low over the muddy waters of Cobequid Bay, sighted the wreckage of the mail plane floating bottom-side-up. On the fifth day he spotted the body of Pilot Simon, red with Cobequid mud. One hand clutched a monocle. There was a fresh cut on the head. Physicians declared that Pilot Simon had died of exposure only a few hours before his body was found...
...dividend would be held at $2.50. But sometimes an officer speaks in order to help the price of the stock or before sounding out the directorate. Lately, shareholders have become wary of official statements. Last week their remaining faith received another jolt. On Sept. 29, fresh from Europe, President Simon Guggenheim of American Smelting & Refining Co. told reporters: "In consideration of the smaller stockholders, corporations should maintain dividends as long as it is possible to do so without the necessity of borrowing. . . . For what better purpose could surpluses be used than in the maintenance of dividends thereby creating goodwill...