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...King Edward VII . . . held to the high standards set by his illustrious mother." But humanitarians like Wilfrid Scawen Blunt who protested against diplomatic blunders which were leading up to the World War were put in jail...
Immediate construction of two new capital ships, the King George V and the Prince of Wales, each costing $40,000,000, was lately announced by Sir Samuel. In this the Admiralty is supported by the Committee on Imperial Defense which last week arrived at two blunt conclusions after months of exhaustive research: 1) "It is plain to us that capital ships cannot be constructed so as to be indestructible, by bombing from the air"; 2) "We need ships equal in fighting power to those to which they may be opposed...
...newsboy and Western Union messenger. It was years before the partners even knew him by name. By his own account he got ahead by being "such a fresh kid." During the War he was cook on a submarine chaser, until yanked into the Navy's Intelligence Department. Brilliant, blunt, energetic, he takes vast interest in the affairs of any company in which he is a director. Occasionally at board meetings he pulls out an essay on the duties of a director, reads it to his fellow board members. At his home in Scarsdale, outside Manhattan, he keeps a private...
...President, Sidney R. Kent, to London to keep his ear to the ground, his hand on a transatlantic telephone. Fortnight ago, Mr. Kent was suddenly invited to Mr. Maxwell's office in Golden Square off London's Regent Street. If Twentieth Century-Fox would prefer it, said blunt Mr. Maxwell, he would be happy that they should retain their 49% interest in the Gaumont-British holding company. On the other hand he would be equally happy to relieve them of that interest. Convinced that Mr. Maxwell could indeed speak for Gaumont-British, President Kent hurried back...
Undenied by any British source, the story of the King and Mrs. Simpson last week was blunt and simple. Under English law a man who makes a trip in company with another man's wife, the two stopping at the same hotels, has in fact given the husband opportunity to sue the wife for divorce on the ground of adultery. The King has just made an extended yachting trip in company with Mrs. Simpson, and notably in Vienna they stopped at the same hotel (TIME, Sept. 21). But Mr. Simpson, as a loyal British subject, could not institute proceedings...