Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balanced the budget last month, and, with Foreign Minister Henri Jaspar, rallied all the gold bloc countries to stand together at the Brussels Conference (TIME, Oct. 29). In the end, however, Dr. Sap's economies, imposed on each and every Minister, made him the Cabinet's Simon Legree. When, having already cut civil servants' salaries 24%, Dr. Sap insisted last week that he must cut them 5% more, the Cabinet resigned amid rumors that "the Ministers were divided between the wisdom of inflation or further deflation...
...which the State's very existence depends in time of war. When Major Attlee compared the armament traffic to the whiteslave traffic and insisted that at the very least the manufacture of munitions should be taken out of private hands and made a prerogative of government, Sir John Simon neatly beclouded the issue with a sneer, "Does the Right Honorable Member mean that privately-owned brothels are wrong but state-owned brothels right?" Finally and flatly Sir John said that the National Government of ex-Pacifist and ex-Socialist James Ramsay MacDonald will not permit a "roving inquiry...
...Received from Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon a few reassuring but purely formal observations touching the prospect of violence in the Saar...
AUTOBIOGRAPHY-John Cowper Powys- Simon & Schuster...
Though shrewd Publishers Simon & Schuster announce it as their "sincere belief" that no such personal and intimate autobiography has been written since Rousseau's Confessions, many a plain reader will feel that Powys has dodged the point. His text is excellent: "If all the persons who wrote autobiographies would dare to put down the things that in their life have actually caused them their most intense misery, it would be a much greater boon than all these testy justifications of public actions." But, like many a sermon, Author Powys' is more exhibitionistic than instructive, and it goes...