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...Empire. King George breaks his tempo when, before being robed in the garments of state and beneath a canopy that screens him from nearly all, he whisks off the red robe that he has been wearing, passes it briskly to the Lord Great Chamberlain, who was supposed to divest him ceremoniously. The Lord Great Chamberlain looks bewildered. Lady Reading, widow of the onetime Viceroy of India, observes: "Like a man handing his bathrobe to a valet.". . . In a Yorkshire cave 300 ft. underground a knot of people sit round a radio, listening intently. They are members of the British Speleological...
...husband, J. Wesley Pratt, a traveling salesman. ("It gives them a better understanding, free of all superstition.") But when the children grow up, Mrs. Pratt, now 38, intends to leave them and her home. She will have her head shaved, put on the. yellow robe of a mendicant nun, divest herself of all possessions except a bowl and a prayer chain, "and in the Ori ent enter some retreat or live alone, the homeless life, seeking Nirvana...
...Public Utility Bill, which got through last week on a House-White House compromise of the "death sentence" for holding companies. The Securities & Exchange Commission must order holding companies to divest themselves of utilities outside "a single integrated" system (with certain narrow exceptions), must prevent any holding company from controlling a second holding company which controls a third holding company...
...National Union for Social Justice, his organization for ''restoring America to the Americans." After roasting Bernard Mannes Baruch and the "lories of high finance," he declared: "I am characterized as a revolutionary for raising my voice. . . . With the logic of a braggart I have been challenged to divest myself of my priestly vocation if I wish to participate in national affairs. Does our conception of Americanism . . . cling to the outworn theory of the divine right of kings by which is implied that the affairs of good government . . . must be surrendered into the hands of professional politicians...
...railroad management can legally or morally divest itself of ultimate freedom of action," explained the committee of western railroad presidents last week in announcing, after months of deliberation, the choice of a supervising "commissioner." He will be Harry Guy Taylor, 52, publicist with American Railway Association, No tsar, he will arbitrate on rate and schedule questions, will never initiate action, will have no power to enforce his decisions...