Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marquess of Zetland, Secretary of State for India and Burma announced that the Government has now acquired a huge secret store of raw materials as a war preparedness measure, in addition to the stocks of wheat, sugar and whale oil disclosed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon three weeks ago. "We do a great many things unknown to the public," confided the Marquess to his peers...
Died. Brigadier General Aaron Simon Daggett, 100, oldest U. S. Army officer; of heart disease; in West Roxbury, Mass. He fought in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Uprising; on his 99th birthday was decorated by the War Department...
...Spare, sandy-haired Major Gerald Constable Maxwell's paternal grandfather was William Maxwell, 10th Baron Herries; his maternal grandfather was Simon Fraser, 14th Baron Lovat. He was not the first of the English families of the Maxwells and the Frasers to distinguish himself in war (he shot down 30 German planes, for which he was amply decorated), but certainly no Maxwell or Fraser before him had so distinguished himself in business. After the War, Mr. Maxwell acquired the Chrysler agency in London, sold so many Chryslers that he was able to sell the agency for a considerable sum. Having...
...afterward were considered clauses "tending to overtax the British munitions industry" or "soak the profiteers"-depending on one's point of view. Since nearly every country has laid plans to soak wartime profiteers, what proceeded to happen in London last week may be of wide significance. The new Simon Budget not only does not further soak any presumptive British profiteers but actually contains a clause enabling British industrialists to make such heavy charge-offs for "depreciation" that in effect industry received last week a hidden exemption from the British income tax upping...
Quietly triumphant, Sir John Simon remarked to friends that once again he had, without throat discomfort, got through a long speech thanks to the mysterious ''elixir'' which Lady Simon always mixes up beforehand. Orator Sir John takes nips of this from a phial, and the potent elixir is gradually diluted as he sips water, about one glass every half hour...