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William Bloor has been the signalman at Winwick Junction for 21 years. A tall, middleaged, careful-minded, precise-spoken Briton who had never before had an accident on his section, he spoke with genuine puzzlement: ''So far as the down line is concerned, my mind is a blank...
...Party wanted it more potent than rich Sir Stafford Cripps who, although he is a graduate of swank Winchester College and a bencher of the Middle Temple, stands as far Left as any Briton will go who still recoils from Communism. Sir Stafford and his Leftist "Socialist Leaguers" wanted three main points incorporated in the platform on which Labor will stand when it goes before the nation either next year or in the 1936 general elections: 1) cooperation with the Communists. 2) immediate abolition of the House of Lords, 3) confiscation of industries, banking and estates without compensation...
...Frankly I am disappointed in it," said the Briton. "We have in England many of the things that President Roosevelt has promised Labor in the United States, but it has taken years of steady evolution to get them. To try to force these things on business, already confused by restrictions of the New Deal, is asking too much of private enterprise...
...string sextet of Bohuslav Martinu, a Czech; the chromatic, well-knit Triptyque of Alexandre Tansman; the Canticum Fratis Soils of Charles Martin Loeffler. Carl Engel, one-time music librarian in Washington, asked Composer Frank Bridge if he considered any of the new works worth $500. Composer Bridge, a dry Briton, answered, "Well, Carl, don't forget the American dollar has been devalued...
...When a Briton named Bill Morris turned up with his Bible in Buenos Aires' Boca dock section in the late 1890's, that district had five saloons to the block, two policemen on every corner to keep murders down to about four per day. Bill Morris, a shabby little street-corner preacher, had been looking all over the world for just such a place. First thing he did was to pick four homeless ragamuffins off the street, install them in a garret. He taught them himself, begged money to feed and clothe them...