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This adder sting touched off Sir Austen Chamberlain, be-monocled, correct and supremely supercilious Peace Prizeman (1926), whilom British Foreign Minister. Wagging a bony forefinger at the Chancellor he cried in shocked protest: "That remark in its tone and temper stands alone in the records of the House! The Right Honorable Gentleman is always ready to impute motives of such a character to the opposition and he has caused 300 gentlemen to sit up all night, not to do business, but for his own satisfaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Snowden's Waterloo | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Kanchenjunga. For their peak, one of the giant pickets in the fence which separates India from Tibet, the party claims an altitude of 28,150 ft. They rank it next to Everest, world's undisputed highest. In this they differ with the Royal Geographical Society, which ranks K2 (Godwin-Austen)' second with its 28,250 ft., Kanchenjunga third. To negotiate this frigid, wind-beaten giant they will establish six camps spaced along the peak's last 10,000 ft. Husky Sherpas porters will strap 68 Ib. packs on their broad shoulders, grease their faces to ward off the erosive wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Virgin Kanchenjunga | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...extinct," ran an editorial, "but it is already beyond the power of human aid. Only a miracle can save it. All the optimists confidently predicted for it has come to nothing. . . . Mr. MacDonald's intentions were admir able, but he made the same sort of blunder made by Sir Austen Chamberlain, who reached a preliminary naval understanding with France in 1927, and then submitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beyond Human Aid | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...Dartmouth, and V. L. Hennessey '30, both of whom had tied for third in last year's meet. The Dartmouth man won by a stride, tieing the existing meet record of 33 4-5 seconds. The second heat was even more exciting with E. E. Record '32 and Austen of Dartmouth fighting for the lead throughout the entire first lap. The long strides of the Crimson runner began to tell on the Hanoverian on the second lap, however, and the former forged to the lead, finishing a good five yards ahead of the Dartmouth man to establish a new Triangular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Piles Up 63 1-2 Points To Crush Cornell and Big Green | 2/25/1930 | See Source »

...London last week the public went to see a momentous collection of Italian Renaissance paintings at Old Burlington House (TIME, Dec. 23). Notables had already swarmed through the galleries, among them the Philip Snowdens, Mrs. Winston Churchill, the Austen Chamberlains (she sponsored the show), the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Wellington, Margot Asquith. Mayfair booksellers announced an unprecedented sale of Italian art books. At this commercially auspicious moment, Art Dealer Godfrey Phillips of London ordered sent from Belgium a canvas by Sir Anthony Van Dyck which he intended to buy for $100,000. The picture, called Concert des Anges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stolen Van Dyck | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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