Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Simon (who resigned from the Liberal Party last month): "The report of the Economy Committee declares that to produce a properly balanced budget in 1932 a gap of £120,000,000 ($583,200,000) will have to be filled either by fresh taxation or economy...
...charge was relatively simple, the trial extremely complex. Conducted by Attorney General Sir William Jowitt and defended by "Britain's foremost barrister," Sir John Simon of Indian Commission fame, the trial resolved itself into a debate on business ethics with the text: Should a company director tell-and how much? Lord Kylsant thought a director should not tell...
...absurd," spluttered Sir John Simon, "to think that they were guinea pigs who left Lord Kylsant to do what he liked and merely drew their directors' fees...
Since the last general elections which swept Scot MacDonald into office, not once but several times the support of Liberal Lloyd George has been all that has kept the Laborite Government in office. Recently Liberal oxen have galled under the Lloyd George yoke. Sir John Simon, busy last week in the defense of Lord Kylsant (see p. 17), left the party in disgust, was sped on his way by the hot little Welshman as follows...
...inebriates' home" hot David apparently meant the Conservative Party, though Sir John Simon had not taken that step last week. But what if Lloyd George should die? Would it mean the breakup of Liberalism? Would self-righteous Sir John lead the remaining Liberals to the inebriates' home too? Would it mean the end of the Labor Government...