Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain may take good heart from the American Civil War when all the heroism of the South could not redeem their cause from the stain of slavery, just as all the courage and skill, which the Germans show in war, will not free them from the reproach of Naziism with its intolerance and brutality," cried Winston Churchill month ago. Vexed, Mrs. Walter D. Lamar, retiring president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, last week retorted: "That insult to the best part of America shows both ignorance and stupidity. . . ." Hastily Mr. Churchill's secretaries rushed off answers to letter...
...still-smarting convalescent from the occupational disease of British Prime Ministers was Britain's Prime Minister last week. Hobbling gingerly after his first bout of gout (podagra) in 18 months, Neville Chamberlain presided over a Cabinet meeting, his left foot swathed in an enormous flannel boot. Outside, London was whistling the newest hit tune: God Bless You, Mr. Chamberlain. What consolation he could the Prime Minister took from echoes of this ditty and from the list of his distinguished gouty predecessors: Derby, Disraeli, Palmerston, Melbourne, Canning, the Pitts.-Several of these statesmen courted gout by stuffing themselves with mutton...
...gout is imperfect elimination of uric acid, and attacks may be caused by heavy consumption of rich food, malt liquors, or by mental shock. Although 50% of gout is hereditary, overindulgence usually aggravates the underlying weakness. Rare in the whiskey-drinking U. S., gout is most common in aley Britain and beery Germany...
...nominal editor of the Courier-Journal for ten years, doubled its circulation, upheld the national reputation that Colonel Watterson had given it. But he left the editorial page to Harrison Robertson, and in 1929 resigned the title to him. (Judge Bingham became Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Great Britain, died in office two years ago.) Editor Robertson never worked for any other paper. He had been 60 years a member of the Courier-Journal staff when he died last fortnight...
Author Agar, who succeeds him, studied arts at Columbia, philosophy at Princeton, spent four years in Britain, where he was literary editor of the English Review, London correspondent for the Courier-Journal. After he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for his book The People's Choice (thesis: most U. S. Presidents were "a feeble and meritless tribe") he went home, joined the Courier-Journal staff...