Word: simons
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Only Item of Progress: Mr. U Ba Pe, representing Burma, announced himself in perfect harmony with the Simon Commission's recommendation that Burma be divorced from the rest of India, constituted a separate crown colony or dominion (TIME, June 30). There,being no objection, the Conference officially approved the separation of Burma "in principle." Said Mr. U Ba Pe with emphasis: "We Burmese want to get away from India as soon as possible...
...Simon Newcomb...
...Centenary of the death of Simon Bolivar; chiefly at Caracas, Bolivar's birthplace, Venezuela's capital...
...BOOK OF SIMON-A. S. M. Hutch- inson-Little, Brown...
Many a newsman, famed and obscure, remembers when "C. C." was called from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1896 by the late famed Joseph Pulitzer to take the city desk of the Evening World. In the next 20 years City Editor Chapin won his nickname, "Simon Legree of Park Row." Brilliant, erratic, hardbitten, utterly ruthless, he feared no one. was feared by many, his underlings included. Also he made many a friend, none more loyal than his Reporter Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. Author Zona Gale worked for "C. C."; so did Barton Currie (later editor of Country Gentleman, Ladies...