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Staying There. In London speculative bookings, not only of hotel rooms but of seats from which to view the Coronation Procession, have surged in wild fluctuations and last week continued erratic. Nevertheless London is such a rearmament boom town in 1937 that, even if nobody came to the Coronation-and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Golden Frame | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Inch chatted amicably with Chairman Landis and his fellow Commissioners, made an inspection tour of the SEC division which will police his business if Bond & Share loses its case. Why Mr. Inch suddenly decided to call on his worst enemy was not revealed but the immediate explanation was that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Challenge | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Some forehanded people buy Christmas gifts in August, but the market for Christmas trees never opens until after Thanksgiving. Last week long flatcars laden with evergreens and snow began to roll into New York and Chicago, focal points of the Christmas tree business. In the four weeks before Dec. 25...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trees | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Other political parties in the United Kingdom had not yet decided on their attitude but the forehanded Communist Party reached last week the shrewd conclusion that a marriage of the King & Mrs. Simpson would advance its interests by setting the middle classes to quarreling among themselves. Accordingly the sole British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: World's Greatest Romance | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Premier Santiago Casares Quiroga promptly suspended Parliament for eight days, and all the Monarchist Deputies swore never to return. Unwisely the Government refused to allow Calvo's body to lie in state anywhere, barred a mob of 30,000 Rightists from the cemetery where he was being buried. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Reprisal Revolt | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

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