Word: britain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current issue of TIME, Feb. 11, you refer to the return to England of Col. T. E. Lawrence, and you refer to that gentleman himself as "Great Britain's most celebrated spy." I should like to know what excuse you have for calling him "spy," or what proof have you that...
From Premises One and Two arose the inescapable conclusion?which the Prince indicated but forebore to draw?that work could be found for Britain's unemployed if only Britain's employers would pep up their salesmen...
...Louis T. McFadden, chairman of the Banking & Currency Committee, announced that at the next session of Congress his committee proposed to go into Federal Reserve discounts, brokers' loans, investment trusts and mergers. Representative Loring Black, a smart sensationalist, attacked the Reserve Board for alleged connivance with Great Britain. He argued that if England needed gold it ought not induce the Federal Reserve to interfere with U. S. prosperity by hampering Wall Street but should sell to the U. S. some of its island possessions off the Atlantic Coast, which possessions are naval bases that threaten U. S. security. Representative...
Should U. S. housewives who fret over electric bills move to London they would find their worries considerably increased. For in Great Britain light costs an average of 13? per kilowatt hour, almost twice the U. S. average of 6.8?. Electric power, too, is much more expensive in London, costing 4? per hour in England; 2.16? here...
...power companies which serve more than 1,000,000 Britishers in 95 English and Scotch communities. Shrewd, diplomatic, the U. S. operators secured the Earl of Birkenhead as the head of their new British interests. Since the Earl of Birkenhead was recently (1919-22) Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for India, his appointment was calculated to assuage British ill-feeling against U. S. economic invasion...