Word: simons
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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While His Majesty's Government in India met crises which demanded news-suppression (see p. 28). Prime Minister MacDonald seemed content to voice this policy: "Wait for the Simon report...
Some two years ago Parliament appointed that great Liberal barrister Sir John Simon to chairman a non-partisan commission (TIME. Jan. 30, 1928) which spent a year in India, amassing mountains of research. Last week the Simon Report was complete at last in two fat tomes: Vol. I History; Vol. II Recommendations...
...MacDonald Government threatened dire punishment to any British paper which scoops the report before it is officially released. Vol. I two weeks hence. Vol. II four weeks hence. George V and Mr. MacDonald received their copies last week. Current London opinion was that the Simon Report will pussyfoot, will recommend nothing which can bridge the gulf between India and Britain...
...Germanic legionaries played a role in the life of the Master. ... On the sorrowful way to Golgotha the leader of the cohorts is seized with such compassion for the Master as He breaks down that he requisitions Simon of Cyrene to carry the cross...
...vice president of the Times, accepted the medal from Dr. M. Walter Williams, the school's dean who was lately elevated to be president of the university (TIME, April 14). Choosing to view the award as in part a personal bestowal upon his father-in-law, Publisher Adolph Simon Ochs, Mr. Sulzberger launched into a glowing recital of the Ochs ideals, prowess, personality. To Mr. Sulzberger his chief is "the perfect newspaperman." "He is simple and direct, and able to strip the most difficult problem of its complexities and put his finger on the underlying and motivating facts...