Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Condon at such a time, however, must be viewed in a very different light. Throughout the case his position has been one of mystery:-one in which neither the public at large nor the press has been fully satisfied as to the veracity of his statements or to the simon-purity of his dealings. He has been in close contact with what might be called the criminal elements of the cause celebre, he has been largely responsible for convicting Hauptmann, and yet, despite the mass of circumstantial evidence, there is great feeling in the country today that, though Hauptmann...
...persuade the Great Powers to bind themselves to back the League with an organized and rational machinery of Sanctions. "In 1924 the efforts of Herriot were foiled by the British and so eight years later were my own," declared André Tardieu. "During the Manchurian troubles Sir John Simon, as British Foreign Secretary, declared that under no pretext would His Majesty's Government permit their country to be drawn into a conflict...
...tremble on the brink of crisis, one may safely spend a British week end in the country and take a holiday over Christmas and New Year's. After observing this tradition. His Majesty's Government returned severally last week to London. The Home Secretary and Lady Simon had been having fliers at Monte Carlo. The Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin had hobnobbed with Worcestershire neighbors of their estate, "Astley Hall." Squire Baldwin, as he does every Christmas, put aside the fact that he is Conservative Party Leader to welcome home his Socialist prodigal son Oliver, the only reservation...
...village church at Maracay. All night long barefoot peasants shuffled past, their black eyes wide with wonder. In his lifetime canny Dictator Gomez made much of the fact that he was born on July 24, a holiday celebrated throughout South America as the birthday of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar. The day and hour of his death last week were reported to have coincided with those of Bolivar's 105 years...
...Largest: Bolivian "Tin-King" Simon Palino...