Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whitsuntide, when the dead Christ's Apostles began work in earnest, had been chosen by Adolf Hitler to get his total war under way. Whitsunday is a big British holiday but the holiday was canceled and the Government called on every Briton to keep a sharp eye aloft for Nazi invaders. King George called 2,500,000 more conscripts to the colors, and the War Office announced that soon there will be in the British Isles some 4,500,000 prospective soldiers in various stages of training...
...bottle. In Britain telephone and telegraph are State monopolies and the Chancellor raised their inland rates 15%, left overseas business rates unchanged to favor British trade. Finally Sir John almost doubled the ordinary British postal rates. Armchair London economists quickly figured that all these measures will cost the "average Briton" an extra shilling and sevenpence weekly...
...British income and supertax payers are being assessed 85% -basic British income tax rate is 37½%. The Chancellor last week invaded lower brackets, making supertax begin at incomes of $5,250 instead of $7,000, and again treating the British white-collar class rough. A married but childless Briton making $1,050 whose income tax was $17.50 the year before last and $24.50 last year will...
...George Bernard Shaw believes in going to church when nobody else is there. An agnostic, he is not a member of the Church of England, but as an educated Briton he knows the Church services. They annoy him. Cheery, bustling vicar of London's famed St. Martin's-in-the-Fields is the Rev. Pat McCormick, who edits an unparochial magazine, St. Martin's Review, with a worldwide circulation of over 10,000, a host of famed contributors. In the April Review George Bernard Shaw had his heretical say about the Church of England's Prayer...
...have not maintained that they have a right to let Dr. Russell's lectures undermine Harvard's morals. Harvard men who want to be corrupted can easily find Earl Russell's books on marriage and morals in Widener Library. But the Corporation sticks to its point that the famous Briton is eminently fitted to lecture on logic and language. If Mr. Dorgan is worried, he might much more profitable train his guns on Philosophy B, which annually indoctrinates more than 200 innocent undergraduates with the dangerous and subversive tenets of Russell's "Introduction to Philosophy...