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...natives. Then, in the first year of Depression, the price of cloves fell and they foreclosed mortgages, became landowners. The Sultan, partly to protect his subjects, partly to repay the Resident for advice, set up a Clove Growers' Association consisting of the most substantial of Zanzibar's Englishmen. The association's powers were great: It has an export monopoly and it bought at its own price; Indians could go on dealing within the island, but they had to pay $750 to the association for annual licenses...
...amply decorated), but certainly no Maxwell or Fraser before him had so distinguished himself in business. After the War, Mr. Maxwell acquired the Chrysler agency in London, sold so many Chryslers that he was able to sell the agency for a considerable sum. Having had no difficulty selling Englishmen U. S. automobiles, he proceeded to sell them U. S. stocks, became a partner in G.M.-P. Murphy's New York Stock Exchange firm and took charge of G.M.-P. Murphy's London branch. He has now resigned from Murphy's, joined the London firm of Williamson, Fawcett...
...nearly 50 years Englishmen have been trying to found a National Theatre, while other Englishmen have been trying to prevent them. The British Government have tacitly been part of the Opposition, which argues that a subsidized theatre means bad plays. But a private committee headed by George Bernard Shaw has at last raised $750,000 and spent half of it buying a site in London's South Kensington, far from the theatre district. Last week, on the eve of Shakespeare's birthday (April 23), before a crowd of nearly 1,000, including U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy...
...Wolf lots of fun were not alone in not knowing when to applaud music by contemporary Russians. Two years ago, Soviet Russia officially banned "Leftist" tendencies in music and art, held up James Joyce's polyperverse novel Ulysses, "written in English that can hardly be understood by Englishmen," as a celebrated example. Two years before that, Nazi Germany had banned exactly the same types of modernistic art as kulturbolschewistisch...
When the visiting Cambridge University squash team appeared in Cambridge last weekend there was no one to meet them, no one to afford them even the bare rudiments of hospitality. If it had not been for one or two public spirited Harvard racquetmen, the Englishmen would have had no actual contact with this University until the match began. In fact, there might have been no match at all, as they did not even know where to inquire about the time and place of the encounter. The one or two racquetmen, however, forsook their study for hour examinations, took their visitors...