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...emerge from what uppity Great Britons call ''Down Under." Seven short years ago the Hon. Mr. Lyons was merely Premier of Tasmania, an island which is down under Australia and referred to by Australians as "The Speck." From this insignificant island Joe Lyons bounded with Horatio Alger rapidity to the Premiership (January 1932) of busted Australia whose national credit he proceeded to restore. Australian-born, the Premier and Mrs. Lyons had never been outside Australia in their lives until this spring when they sailed for the Royal Jubilee to ride at London in a State carriage behind King George...
Another eminent subject of King George to whom the behavior of Great Britons appeared fantastic last week was the League's Australian-born Saar Commissioner, Mr. Geoffrey Knox. When he asked last March for what he suddenly got last week, namely a League Army to police the Saar, everyone in Geneva sat on him, none harder than Sir John Simon...
Britain's most eloquent and popular Nonconformist preacher is Dr. Frederick William Norwood, a broad-faced, shaggy-locked, Australian-born divine who has long ministered to people of all creeds at London's City Temple. Currently in the U. S. as an exchange preacher, Dr. Norwood spoke last month at Ocean Grove, N. J., an unworldly Methodist resort featuring oldtime camp meetings. Last week he was at Manhattan's Riverside Church. At no time in his tour has Dr. Norwood made so bold as to evaluate U. S. religion or speculate as to its future. But back...
Last Sunday Preacher Shorter no longer was pastor of Pilgrim Church. The congregation which called him there eight years ago, chiefly at the behest of President Alfred Helmer Lundin of Seattle's Chamber of Commerce, had voted him out. Chief reason was that "Fred" Shorter, 39, Australian-born graduate of Missouri State University and Yale Divinity School, had. like many another thoughtful U. S. minister, turned Socialist. He believed that "Christianity and Capitalism as they now exist are not compatible"; that Christianity itself is "historic Communism." a peaceful force to transform the social order. Pastor Shorter promoted a "Consumers...
Married. Marmaduke Furness, ist Viscount Furness, 49, British shipbuilding tycoon; and Enid Lindeman Cameron Cavendish, 39, modish Australian-born relict of the late Brigadier-General Frederick W. L. S. H. Cavendish; in London, few days after Lord Furness was divorced for misconduct by his second wife. Thelma Morgan Converse Furness, onetime Manhattan socialite beauty, onetime cinemactress...