Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Never publicly performed in England because the censor, the Lord Chamberlain, bans any play in which any member of the Royal Family who is living or insufficiently long dead appears. Last week Edward VIII decided that Queen Victoria is now sufficiently long dead (35 years), decreed that after June 10, 1937 plays in which his great-grandmother figures may be publicly produced in Britain...
...Commissioner for the Special or "Distressed" Areas, wanted to spend so much money on them that his resignation was accepted by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. The fact that His Majesty went to South Wales straight from consulting Scotsman Stewart caused the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain, to arise in some perturbation and tell an audience at Leeds...
...mistress of King Edward IV and after his death was, by order of King Richard III, frog-marched through the streets of London to be reviled by the populace and finally imprisoned for what was declared to be the crime of "committing adultery with His Late Majesty." The Lord Chamberlain, who acts as Britain's play censor, has no power to ban productions in such little theatres where entrance is supposed to be ''by subscription to members only...
...thus reducing the value of both principal and interest. The fact that MM. Blum and Auriol have admitted that while selling the bonds in France, they were carrying on simultaneous devaluationary parleys with U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, was held by the 1,000,000 taxpayers to be conclusive proof of fraud...
...publishers who wondered if its checks made up for its bang-up competition for readers' attention. So Edi tor Wallace quietly began to publish original articles, now pays $500 to $1,000 for such material. Most famed Reader's Digest original was " -and Sudden Death," by Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, which ap peared in August 1935, dramatized the slaughter of automobile casualties, was quoted far & wide, fathered many a horror-struck accident report in the Press...