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Last week the Royal Gallery of the Houses of Parliament was being "renovated" for the coming trial. A woolsack was installed for Viscount Hailsham to sit upon in his capacity as Lord High Chancellor and a gilt chair from the King's robing room for use in his other capacity as Lord High Steward. For this occasion the House of Lords official known as Black Rod will carry not his usual black rod but a white rod, for the reason that after sentence is delivered the Lord High Steward must break Black Rod's white rod across...
...practise at all. You know, for example, that the Deutsche Jugendkraft with a membership of over 100,000 throughout Baden was dissolved. Mr. Bingham implies that because the Nazis have promised not to discriminate against Jewish athletes that there would therefore be no discrimination. Are we to take the gilt-aged invitations issued to Gretel Bergman and Helene Mayer as satisfactory evidence of their good faith? Or are we to consider the gross violations of the Olympic Code contained in the cases of Dr. Prenn, the tennis player, Beelig, the boxer and Nathan, the long distance runner, to name...
...diligent playing with yachts and bridge hands, Mr. Vanderbilt is a quiet-loving, diligent businessman who applies his able mind to the affairs of his clan's biggest heritage, the New York Central Lines. Each winter business day he conscientiously posts himself at his executive desk in a gilt-topped tower straddling Park Avenue. And while Mr. Jones worries about Mr. Vanderbilt's problems, Mr. Vanderbilt occasionally worries about Mr. Jones...
When Congress quit last month House Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnott took a last look around the bare chamber, went off on his vacation leaving the visitors' gallery open for sightseers. Last week Doorkeeper Sinnott returned from his vacation, peered up at the big gilt clock hanging just below the gallery, saw that some souvenir-hunter had made off with one of its two-foot hands. Indignantly the Doorkeeper locked up the House gallery until next session...
...Hales Trophy is three and a half feet of solid silver, onyx and gilt, showing Victory, Neptune and Amphitrite upholding a globe and topped by a figure called Speed urging a liner into the face of a figure called The Force of the Atlantic. Roundabout were memorials to past record-holders and at the base was Harold Hales's name...