Word: arnold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boomerangs." The Lords cheered when Baron Snell of Plumstead, a Labor peer, once a stable groom, scathingly denounced "this tribute to Hitler," but Lord Darnley's proposal was warmly seconded by Baron Arnold, who was Under Secretary for Colonies and later Paymaster General in the British Labor Governments of 1924 and 1929. "The policy of a fight to the finish is wrong," cried Lord Arnold, arguing that, if Britain and France continue fighting Germany until the Nazis are overthrown by revolution, the German people will then go Communist and join the Russians in spreading Communism over the whole...
...Bishop of Chichester joined with Lords Darnley and Arnold in plumping for peace-without-victory, observing that the Government had not "taken seriously" the efforts of neutrals to mediate. Outstanding in the stuffy Church of England as a progressive student of social and industrial problems, the Bishop sharply criticized Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax for stipulating fortnight ago that Germany must offer "adequate guarantees" before peace negotiations can begin. Cried the Bishop: "Military, naval and economic guarantees which satisfy the most exacting critics have a way, after 20 years, of recoiling like boomerangs...
Super-Secret. At Paris, in wartime, any French statesman who made such speeches as Darnley, Arnold and Chichester reeled off last week would find his career ended amid shouts of "Traitor!" In phlegmatic London, the sensation in the Lords effectively diverted public curiosity from what happened that same night in the House of Commons, which held its first secret session of World...
...Director Arnold Lucius Gesell of Yale's famed Clinic of Child Development, writing in Scientific Monthly for December, gave Darwin credit for these experiments, because, in trying to bolster up his theory of man's lowly origin, Darwin gave a tremendous push to the infant science of infant behavior. Still a source book for child psychologists is Darwin's A Biographic Sketch of an Infant, published...
...believers in labor unity, it was unfortunate that the New Deal's Thurman Arnold opened his blasts against the A. F. of L. building trades unions, dragged up old A. F. of L. scandals by the dozen, inflamed A. F. of L. conservatives and renewed C. I. O. suspicions, at a moment when sentiment for labor peace was thus growing...