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Englishmen are shouting "Buy British!" instead of "Carry on!" but urbane Sir Ashley Sparks, U. S. chief of the Cunard Line, landed in Manhattan last week with an air of durate...
...Great Britain has faced both her financial mistakes and her social and political untruths," said Sir Ashley, "with the result that she has stopped going down. In a world that is still sliding she appears even to have started on the long climb back. But whether this is so or not it is abundantly evident that she has applied the brakes and is once again within control...
...Army base pier at the foot of 58th Street, Brooklyn, to sail on the fastest transatlantic vessels in the world-the North German Lloyd's Bremen and Europa* Strapping big Heinrich Schuengel, who is for N. G. L. what humorous little Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks is for Cunard- resident U. S. director-had a chance to air his grievance before Counsel Samuel Seabury's legislative committee on municipal scandals. Smaller Lloyd liners use Pier No. 42, North River. For nine years, said Director Schuengel, the line tried to get larger accommodations in Manhattan for its big new ship...
...Bishop William Thomas Manning's rich Cathedral of St. John the Divine, long abuilding in Manhattan, Banker William Woodward, whose racehorses (Gallant Fox [retired], Sir Ashley, Sir Andrew, et al.) have won $89.543 in purses this year, gave $80,000 for a rose window 40 ft.in diameter, in memory of his parents and his uncle James T. Woodward (from whom he inherited his estate at Bel Air, Md., his large holdings in Central Hanover Bank & Trust...
...Named by his owner. William Woodward, for Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks, U. S. resident director of the Cunard Line. Mr. Woodward has also a horse Sir Andrew, named for one of his blackest, most bowlegged stablemen...