Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rejected (279-to-68) a Labor motion to outlaw private arms manufacture in Great Britain. Cool, sarcastic Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon headed off demands for an armaments inquisition by making the one held by the U. S. Senate appear uncouth. In eight hours of hot debate the munitions business received the most notable airing it has ever had in the House of Commons...
Cheers rang out as Sir John Simon, taking the same line, sarcastically referred to a telegram "which was read as though it were evidence [at the U. S. Senate inquiry] asserting that no less a person than His Majesty the King had sent for the Polish Ambassador and impressed upon him the importance of purchasing whatever he wanted from an English firm." Making no explicit denial, Sir John continued "Of course, that is perfectly and entirely grotesque. All of us, to whatever party we belong, know His Majesty to be perfectly incapable of having any connection with this silly story...
LIFE A LA HENRI?Henri Charpentier & Boyden Sparkes?Simon & Schuster...
...Rochester, N. Y.; Robert B. Stevens ocC, Scheueetady, N. Y.; John D. Sicher '36, New York City; Robert E. Shalen '37, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Alfred C. Wolf ocC, Atlantic City, N. J.; Eugene C. Worman, Jr. '37, White Plains, N. Y.; Robert L. Wolff '36, New York City; Simon M. Bessie '36, New York City; Robert L. Bishop '37, Manhasset...
...Last week the silver-haired Scot, fresh from his summer's rustication in Nova Scotia, was busily ensconced at No. 10 Downing St. with experts of the British Admiralty. They had hoped he would take things easy and let the Admiralty dictate to Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon what course the Empire shall steer at the 1935 Naval Conference. Instead the Prime Minister assumed full charge last week, letting it be known that he will chairman the British Delegation...