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Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, spent a busy-dizzy week-end entertaining the entire U. S. delegation at his official country place, Chequers Court, rushing them on a sightseeing tour round Buckinghamshire. Delegates and prime minister visited Milton's cottage at Chalfont St. Giles; the graves of William Penn and Edmund ("on conciliation with America") Burke; Hughenden. country home of the great Jew Benjamin Disraeli. Said U. S. Secretary of State Stimson: "One of the most interesting days of my life. ... To me all this is sacred ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Conference Notes | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...experienced in previous years in making donations to charitable institutions, a meeting of the Council last night voted that the president, treasurer, and graduate secretary of the Phillips Brooks House Association constitute an advisory committee to the Chairman of the Budget Committee. It was also voted to appoint Henry Chalfont '31 as a member of the Budget Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. COMMITTEE TO ADVISE ON BUDGET | 10/9/1929 | See Source »

WHATEVER WE DO ? Allan Upde-graff?John Day ($2.50). Cloppety-Clop. The little French train rushed through the pines toward Valloire, modest neighbor of Cannes, bearing Peleus Chalfont, young U. S. expatriate in search of health. Cloppety-Clop. The same little train bore the pretty Bobbie Parsons and her too ancient husband George, un- pleasantly far from his native Missouri. The toot of a motor horn. Came drunken old Henry-oh with ribalt Mimi, the Duchess. World-weary pilgrims, they journeyed back through the hills to the Temple of Hercules, there to utter loose prayers. Someone answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Ladies | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...opera company has been incorporated to give a five-week season in Paris, starting May 18. This company, dubbed the American-Italian-French Grand Opera Company, has secured the services of Mary Garden and Rosa Raisa, also of Elvira de Hidalgo, Toti dal Monte, Queena Mario, Lucille Chalfont, Grace Moore, Yvette Ruzel, Vanda Nomicos, Eva Clark, Mary Lawrence, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo Rimini, Giuseppe de Luca, Adamo Didur, Georges Baklanov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Paris | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

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