Word: townsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aristocratic Anthony Eden, with his landed gentry forebears and his Eton background, hates Business and being "businesslike," whereas strongly Middle-Class Townsman Neville Chamberlain is the embodiment of Business. The British aristocracy do not always live up to their principles, do not claim to-but they have them. It was Eton which cried out against Birmingham last week when Orator Eden brought 2,500 young Conservatives cheering to their feet with his words: "It is not by seeking to buy temporary good will that Peace is made. ... If we are to have Peace in your time, it means that...
...only other U. S. gubernatorial election of the week, Virginia's Democratic Lieut.-Governor James Hubert Price, a courtly 55-year-old Richmond lawyer, got more than five votes to every one polled for his courtly fellow townsman and old friend, former Republican State Senator J. Powell Royall...
...Union the press, the radio and the cinema are 100% controlled by the Soviet State and the Communist Party. No other party is permitted to exist. There is no opposition press. The new Constitution for the first time makes the vote of a peasant equal the vote of a townsman. No one may be nominated except at a meeting, the minutes of which must be signed by all the presiding officers and who will put his name to a paper which the Secret Police, after the election, could construe as evidence of a plot to nominate a "wrecker"? Latest dispatches...
Senior mathematics students at Princeton Country Day School were asked to find two consecutive odd numbers the difference of the squares of which would be - 56. Stumped, they asked their fellow townsman Albert Einstein for a hint...
Chief Landon whisper has been that he is in the toils of his old friend, Harry ("Teapot Dome") Sinclair, whom he knew as a fellow townsman in Independence, Kans., as a Kansas University fraternity brother, as a fellow oilman. Alf Landon says he has not even seen Harry Sinclair in at least six years, perhaps ten. No one has yet accused Candidate Landon of accumulating a campaign slush fund, a charge usually hurled about this time at any candidate who gets out in front in the race for the Presidential nomination. Last week his Kansas City Campaign Chairman Oscar Stauffer...