Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Home Secretary Sir John Simon, long England's highest-priced lawyer, was forced by the questions of M.P.'s last week to advise the House of Commons whether or not the Throne would be inherited jointly by both Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Reason for this question: when there is no male heir to a British peerage it descends equally upon female heirs who are sisters, and the House was much disquieted last week by the thought that England might some day have two Queens at once, after the manner of the two simultaneous Kings of Barataria...
Knopf, Macmillan Co., Simon & Schuster, Viking Press...
...London last week the British Government was not sure whether or not an imposing, glib U. S.-Canadian Jew with a machine for treating respiratory diseases was a medical knave or not. To be on the safe side Sir John Simon, head of the British Home Office, ordered David Fingard to get out of England by Jan. 15. Unless King George VI interfered, that last week seemed likely to happen. But the King's interference was not beyond the possibilities of David Fingard's career...
...Fiction A BOOK HUNTER'S HOLIDAY-A. S. W. Rosenbach-Honghton Mifflin ($4). Rich, rosy-cheeked Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach writes in a breezy after-dinner way on the romantic sidelights of book collecting in general, his own famed collection in particular, including such bargains as the Button Gwinnett letter at $51,000, five pages of the Pickwick Papers...
...Messrs. Simon & Schuster are so enthusiastic about Trotsky's three-volume History of the Russian Revolution (TIME, March 14, 1932) that, although it failed to be the immediate best-seller they expected, they keep plugging it year after year in the U. S. and up to last week had disposed of some 10,000 copies. It admirably sets forth the "theory of permanent revolution" which Comrade Trotsky feels to be his chief contribution to mankind and which, Trotsky thinks, is taking place just as permanently and inevitably in the U. S. as anywhere else...