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Other candidates for phenomenon are: Australia's Jack Crawford, fireball player of the 1928 and 1930 Davis Cup matches; England's Frederick J. Perry, unbeaten ping pong player, Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin and C. R. D. Tuckey, British Army mystery man, a harder hitter than the other Englishmen...
Weasel Mellon. If to most Englishmen Ambassador Mellon's words sounded vague and cheerless, a famed Welshman did not hesitate to-attack him openly. In a new book published last week, Mr. David Lloyd George called him a weasel, thus...
This joke the House of Commons received at first in dead silence. Suddenly, after a lapse of perhaps 45 seconds, the Englishmen, Scotsmen and Welshmen present saw the joke and roared. Chancellor Chamberlain, his stern features relaxing in a smile of pleasure, got down to business...
...tariff side Chancellor Chamberlain of course reduced by not one inch or penny Great Britain's brand new tariff wall. The Chancellor announced a new duty on "foreign tea" of fourpence a pound, on "Empire tea," of twopence a pound. But tea-loving and beer-loving Englishmen had also expected Mr. Chamberlain to cut the beer...
Under a new income tax law signed by the President, "Turkish wage earners become the most heavily taxed in the world." according to Istanbul papers. Every Turk, no matter how minute his income, must pay at least 30% to the State. Richest Turks will get off easier than richest Englishmen who are taxed out of half their income. In Turkey, under the new law. "incomes over $300 per month shall be taxed...