Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though he thus flinches from the hurly-burly of modern life, Philosopher Joad is no pantywaist philosopher. Three years ago, when he witnessed the first firewalk performed in England (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935); newshawks asked him, as a well-known student of psychic phenomena, what he thought of the feat. Scholar Joad, taking a leaf from the book of George Bernard Shaw, who charges $1 a word for answering questions, said he could make no observations unless he was paid five guineas...
...International Psychotherapy Congress at Oxford, England, 43-year-old Hypnotist Francis Völgyesi of Budapest, who has put to sleep all the monkeys, foxes, swans and lions in the Budapest Zoo, told reporters how he once gave the eye to a pack of 18 hungry wolves. "I simply got the leader under control," he said, "and then waved the pack back just as if they were soldiers at a drill...
Nudism, as an organized movement, started in Germany in the early 20s, went ahead by serious leaps and dignified bounds until 1933, when the German body put on a brown shirt. From Germany the cult spread to France, England and the U. S., where it was popularly regarded as high-class burlesque. By 1934, however, there were 300,000 serious-minded nudists in the U. S., and the movement gathered momentum until the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego three years ago, where 2,000,000 sightseers at 25? a head peeked over a fence into a nudist corral...
...England's slump appeared in unemployment figures totaling 1,802,912 against 1,356,598 year ago; in slack seasons for seaside resorts like Brighton, Bournemouth and Ryde; in coal production, down from 20,000,000 tons year ago to 17,000,000 this June. The figures which most jolted British investors were the earning reports of the four chief railway companies-London & North Eastern, London, Midland & Scottish, Great Western, The Southern. Fortnight ago, when all four showed net revenues far below expectations and Great Western passed the first interim dividend since its consolidation, there were editorials in many...
Compensating for such troubled areas are I. T. & T.'s interests in quiet spots like France, England, Australia, Peru and Argentina. Argentina is the company's pet. Since I. T. & T. bought United River Plate Telephone Co., Ltd. in 1928. that booming southern nation has expanded its I. T. & T. phones from 194.500 to 345,186. The present Argentine system, valued at $89,500,000, is I. T. & T.'s largest foreign investment in a single country. Last year it provided nearly...