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...hold in Britain last week brought into London's Old Street Police Court doughty John Penfold, an auctioneer charged with warming up a London slum gathering with the words: "I'd turn all the Jews out of Britain! And I'd start with Hore-Belisha [Transport Minister], Sassoon [Undersecretary for Air] and Epstein [sculptor...
...Cheered announcements that 4,500 miles of main British motor roads are being "nationalized" by dynamic Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha. Today British motor cars do not stop dead, as they are supposed to do, before every "Belisha Beacon" at which pedestrians theoretically have the right-of-way to cross (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), but Mr. Hore-Belisha is capitalizing on the publicity his beacons won to carry out vital reforms. Shocking is the fact that two-thirds of Britain's boasted "Great North Road" from London to Scotland is too narrow for two lanes of traffic. Hundreds...
...Thomas, after a week's brooding, returned the seals of the Colonial Office to King Edward VIII. A few hours later his son Leslie Thomas, whose clients had made a killing by insuring themselves against tax rises in the Budget, resigned from the Stock Exchange firm of Belisha & Co. This week, however, a court of inquiry exonerated Son Leslie. In scathing verbiage its report put the blame for the Budget leak squarely on Jim Thomas...
...Member was responsible for last month's Budget leak. Three years ago when the British Government took over the defaulted bonds of Newfoundland, there was a similar leak which made fortunes on Newfoundland bonds for a favored few. Among the biggest plungers then was the brokerage house of Belisha & Co., whose senior partner is the uncle of Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha. A potent partner in Belisha & Co. is Leslie Thomas, son of dumpy James Henry Thomas, Britain's Secretary of State for the Colonies. One of the first facts discovered about last month's Budget...
...whole show was a portrait of England. It was full of pictures of substantial English gentlemen like the late Earl Jellicoe, Field Marshal Lord Milne, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishop of London, the Right Honorable Leslie Hore-Belisha. It included Battersea Twilight, two pictures of Plymouth Sound, a great number of hunting scenes, the usual Spring in Cornwall, this time by the Academy's first and only full-fledged female member, Laura Knight, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. It had an extraordinary supply of studies of English bars, the Academician...