Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Legion Convention in Los Angeles proceeded the "Little Flower," veteran of a War-time bombing squadron, retired as a Major. Superpatriots protested against his attending because he has a confessed Communist in his administration (Simon Gerson) and is a member of the American Labor Party...
...statement was an announcement made without comment by the British Admiralty that 42 warships of the Home Fleet had been ordered to its base at Scapa Flow, Scotland-that is, directly opposite Germany-for two months' maneuvers. On top of this, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sent Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to make a speech at Lanark, Scotland. There he strongly reaffirmed Neville Chamberlain's own declaration of last March that Britain might find herself drawn into any war breaking out in Eastern Europe. "The beginning of a conflict is like the beginning of a fire...
...championship next week, Mrs. Moody sent the U. S. L. T. A. a check for $1,309.45, a refund in toto for her expenses abroad-apparently as indemnity for its loss of her as a box-office attraction at Forest Hills. Bewildered by such a Simon-pure amateur spirit, the U. S. L. T. A. decided to take it up as new business at their next meeting...
WITH MALICE TOWARD SOME-Margaret Halsey-Simon & Schuster...
...readers are used to Englishmen's relentless output of travel books about the U. S. But for an American to write a travel book about England is still a novelty. Wife of a Ph.D. (brother of Publisher Richard Simon) who spent a year in England on an exchange professorship, 28-year-old Margaret Halsey has added enough wisecracks to make her novelty also a likely bestseller. Divested of wisecracks, Author Halsey's English impressions are surprisingly charitable - kinder than most English impressions of the U. S., kinder than Peggy Bacon's illustrations, and much kinder than...