Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reading's About Face. After three years labor as Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission, Sir John Simon- a great & good Liberal friend of Lord Reading-reported that India's states were not yet ready to become a federated union, and that the power of His Majesty's Viceroy must remain unhampered and supreme. The only important concessions recommended by the Simon Report had to do with granting a mite more freedom to the provincial governments in British India (TIME, June...
Believing firmly that Sir John Simon must be right, Lord Reading entered the Round Table Conference with a prepared speech in his pocket (TIME, Dec. 1). Excerpt: "You will forgive me if I use a strong expression. ... I say that it is idle to say that at this moment there could be anything like equality of status- constitutional status, that is-in India with the Dominions...
...Reading had heard virtually all the Indian Princes at the Conference deliver their astounding, unanimous plea for federation and self-government of India under the Crown-but Lord Reading had not grasped what he had heard. Last week, having boldly grasped the facts and still more boldly rejected the Simon Report, Lord Reading said...
...Howard Marfield, vice president of Central Trust Co. of Illinois, Chicago, was made president of Straus National Bank and Trust Co. of New York. He succeeds the late Simon William Straus (TIME, Sept...
DREAMY RIVERS-Henry Baerlein- Simon & Schuster ($2.50).† Like Rev. Laurence Sterne, Traveler Henry Baerlein wore rosy spectacles when he went on a journey. But he supplies you with the same kind, so he makes a good companion. Traveler Baerlein speaks foreign languages like a native, and everywhere he went people would drop whatever they were doing to engage him in extended and animated chats. Such was the charm of his tongue or his appearance that a chambermaid in a hotel, a respectable woman with a son, left her job to go walking with him. Other occasional companions were...