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...only English landladies spoke French, and if only their English cooks knew something of haute cuisine, Frenchmen with gold francs would be tempted in droves across the Channel. Last week, with this in mind, the progressive Mayor of Blackpool had drummed up 28 landladies, was having them taught French, with French cooking to follow. First question and answer memorized by Blackpool's pucker-browed landladies...
...true, sadly admitted the landladies, that in Blackpool they all have "several rooms...
...Euston-to-Blackpool express rocketed north through the night of the British midlands just west of Manchester, past the signal box at tiny Winwick Junction and smack into a puttering local. When the tumult had died and the ten dead had been laid out in the morgue, British Justice last week went ponderously to work on the facts. To an inquest at Warrington was summoned William Bloor...
...went through the Black Country north of Birmingham, the pottery district of Staffordshire (Arnold Bennett's Five Towns), the slums of Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, visited Blackpool (England's Coney Island), the collieries of East Durham. Everywhere he found something to interest and perturb him. His conclusions: "You go up and down this country and what makes you jump with astonishment and delight is something that has been there for at least 500 years. ... I find it difficult to believe in the God who inspired the creators of Beverley Minster. But I am beginning to find it even more difficult...
...result of the Blackpool Conference was to approve Things-As-They-Are-And-Were. But newshawks gleefully reported what many called "the typical Tory tirades." Example: frosty Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, warmed up to the point of flaying Free Trader Lloyd George for his recent attacks on the tariff results of the Ottawa Conference thus: "Even if a cat is pulled out of the cream jug by the tail, as was Lloyd George, that is no reason why it should spit in the cream...