Word: britannia
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...will loyally cooperate to avoid unpleasant subjects until after the Coronation next May 12, and the House was slated last week for such work as raising Cabinet salaries a trifle, including that of the Prime Minister. This matter intensely English Punch presented in a drawing of the Good Fairy Britannia magically raising the emolument of the independently wealthy Stanley Baldwin (see cut). Intensely Canadian Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard (which was pro-Edward and anti-Baldwin throughout the crisis) cartooned the Prime Minister with savage drollery as rolling about like a babe in his "Second Childhood...
...Punch's caption: "A WELL-EARNED REWARD" "The Good Fairy, Britannia (to the Principal Boy)- "AND NOW TO PLEASE THE STALLS, THE PIT AND GALLERY, "ALLOW ME TO PRESENT A RISE OF SALARY...
...manager of King George V's and VI's racing and breeding studs; in London. He annually wagered a half-crown (62?) with Sailing Master Major Sir Philip Hunloke that the King's horses would win more races than the King's racing cutter Britannia. Died, Most Reverend Michael James Gallagher, 70, Roman Catholic Bishop of Detroit since 1918, longtime ecclesiastical friend and protector of political Priest Charles Edward Coughlin; of a throat ailment; in Detroit...
...Royal racing stables along the lines on which George V ran them. He was riding in sombre Daimlers and Lanchesters and not in slick American cars. He had even changed his policy about yacht racing to meet popular demands. When George V died his will instructed that his yacht Britannia should be sunk unless one of his sons wanted to race it. All four sons, including the present King, turned this offer down and the Britannia was sunk (TIME, July 20). George VI, however, lately revealed he is willing now to be a "Sailor King" like his father, is expected...
...gladly attended meetings, shouted "Amen" and "Glory Be!" The No. 1 Missioneer, Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, led off the opening meeting: "Constantly I remind myself that the Romans said, 'these Britons make the most unlovely, thick headed slaves we have here. . . . No good will ever come out of Britannia...