Word: simons
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Returned to Liverpool from the U. S. last week sad-eyed Sir John ("Simon Report") Simon, Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission. Said...
Viceroy's Plan. From the "dizzy heights" of Simla a brief cable pictured Viceroy Lord Irwin as "laboring night and day" to whip together "a proposal alternative to the report of the Simon Commission [TIME, June 30 et ante] and much more liberal." This means that the Viceroy himself is a rebel against the Simon Report, which nearly all Indians consider too reactionary and which a probable plurality of Englishmen (including all the Conservatives) hold to be too liberal...
...that it would present its repertory in ten cities* -three more than the 1929 tour. And although Walter Hampden made known that he would not go on the road as in previous years because of poor business conditions, Funnyman Ed Wynn thought prospects were bright enough to buy Simple Simon (last season's Ziegfeld show in which he appeared) to take on tour...
...Died. Simon William Straus, 63, Manhattan banker, chairman of S. W. Straus & Co. (Manhattan financiers), Chicago's Franklin Trust & Savings Bank, the American Society for Thrift, financial backer of Manhattan's Chanin and Chrysler buildings; after long illness, of anemia, at his home in Manhattan...
...Simon William Straus, distinguished Manhattan banker, lay ill in his room at the Ambassador Hotel on Park Avenue, complained of the din of passing traffic. Policemen came to abate noise in the neighborhood of the Ambassador, arrested one Robert Heller, architect, for tooting his horn...