Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in the face of united Conservative opposition, frightened Labor whips conferred busily with Liberals, received a promise from Leader Lloyd George that he would exert his influence to prevent Liberals from voting on the bill at all. The bill came up. Eight Liberals led by Sir John Simon jumped the Lloyd George hedge and voted with the Conservatives, but Labor won, 277 to 250. Laborites ran wild, shook the rafters of the staid House of Commons with "Auld Lang Syne." Bitterly spoke Liberal Sir John Simon...
...NIGHT IN KURDISTAN?Jean-Richard Bloch?Simon & Schuster...
Neither of these decisions on Harvard's part are broadly influential. They take cognizance of the variety of forces bearing on the whole athletic situation. No one would dare affirm that Harvard sports are simon pure. The privileges given to players and the care bestowed on first string men are are too well known. But in the gradual attempt to put sports on the mythical healthy basis, the combined and sometimes dissociated efforts of players, athletic heads, and faculty officials produce a continual advance in building up a sane athletic program...
...Slavery, by Lady Kathleen Simon (wife of Sir John), London, 1929 (Hodder & Stoughton). Her well-documented slavelands list: Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Arabia, Sierra Leone, Liberia; also ("modified slavery") Portuguese East Africa, Portugal's West African Islands St. Thome & Principe, French Equatorial Africa, Tanganyika etc. Lord Cecil recently estimated that there are at least 5,000,000 human slaves today. Liberia's estimated population, including freemen...
HARD LINES?Ogden Nash?Simon & Schuster...