Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case did not warm up last week. When it does, Lord Kylsant will be defended by Britain's No. 2 Liberal (Lloyd George is No. 1), famed Sir John Simon. The Crown's major champion will be a former Liberal who suddenly switched into the Labor Party when Scot MacDonald offered him the post of Attorney General of Great Britain in the second Labor Government. Switcher Sir William Jowitt was elected a Liberal M. P. at the last general election (1929), but later in a by-election was returned as Labor M. P. by his old constituents...
Jews in general were not disappointed by George V last week. Mr. Montague Burton, by birth a Polish Jew but today London's biggest merchant tailor, became "Sir Montague." The Jewish assistant Secretary of the General Post Office, Mr. Leon Simon, became ''Sir Leon." Others who received Birthday Honors last week were...
ADVENTURES IN GENIUS-Will Durant -Simon & Schuster...
...students of Washington & Jefferson College at Washington, Pa. went on strike last March. Their complaint: that their president, Dr. Simon Strousse Baker, was "autocratic" (TIME, March 30). A committee of trustees investigated the charges, was ready to report last week. But the report was not read. Dr. Baker resigned...
...Philadelphia Dr. Simon Flexner got him a laboratory job at the University. The late Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell gave him patronage. He worked hard, brilliantly, but episodically, and got results. He pushed himself into this work and that, pushed himself to Germany and European elsewheres, gloated in honors: "In Copenhagen they gave me the Royal Medal. If I add what I got from Spain, I have two foreign decorations. It is said that the Swedish Crown intends to decorate me. . . . I was given audience by two royalties. . . ." He often referred to himself with naive objectiveness, as "funny Noguchi...