Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the House of Commons was indeed smoldering against Nazidom appeared when Sir John Simon, supporting Mr. Baldwin, drew rare cheers by this involved but venomous reference to Germany: "If His Majesty's Government are to be attacked [for our air program], if our critics are to be answered, let us do it in the good old-fashioned way, by argument and vote, and let us utterly repudiate the methods of gangsters...
...report on them tor Brother Bernard. When he returns from taking his cure at Vichy, Brother Bernard in turn will report to Mayor LaGuardia on the need for more baths. Brother Herman explained: "I've been interested in public baths for many years because my father, Dr. Simon Baruch, established the first one in Manhattan, and Bernard is equally interested. . . . Much of the trouble with these public baths, I fear, is due to the kind of people who, in the nature of things, patronize them...
...mind had been rated as equal to that of a "superior adult." Six months later her elders found her qualified, on paper, to teach in a Los Angeles high school. At 12 she scored an I. Q. of 214, highest ever recorded in the U. S. in a Binet-Simon test. That same year she went to Barnard College, wrote six Vanity Fair articles which were later published in book form as The Younger Generation...
...have a literary job ? if it paid good money. The trouble with high 'I. Q.' children is that they get through school too early. Nobody wants to hire a 15-year-old girl to do literary work no matter how many scales she has broken in Binet-Simon tests. I had to have a job when I got through college ? and I got one and kept...
Britain. So sacrosanct is the British week-end that Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon created a stir by letting it be known in London that, although he would not cancel his week-end in the country, he would keep in constant touch by wire with his Foreign Office. To the Commons Sir John announced in language elliptical but unmistakable that His Majesty's Government stands with Italy and France for the preservation of Austrian independence from Germany. London editors were unanimous in flaying the Nazi slayers, echoed the Evening Standard which declared that Germany is "the Dillinger of Europe...