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Other evidence that enterprise was still alive in Britain last week: > It carried one firm too far. Hispano-Britannic Co., West End wholesale house, was fined ?1,250 under the Limitations of Supplies Order, for exceeding its sales quota of perfume, hosiery, fancy goods. >The London, the Associated and the Provincial Brokers' Stock Exchanges took voluntary action to reduce overhead. The kickback which banks and clerks had been getting from brokers as a finder's fee for new customers was cut from 50 to 33⅔% the broker's commission. In the case of other finders...
...least 20 of Hearst's collections were outstandingly good, and five-armor, English furniture, English silver, Gothic tapestry, Hispano-Moresque pottery-ranked among the finest private collections in the world...
...Henry Wallace. They said that he was of much sympathy, a plougher of ground like themselves, a gringo with the proper sort of gentle eyes. They put too much emphasis on his first name, for he spoke a kind of Spanish and they supposed that like Hispano-Mexicans he used both parents' names, Henry for his father, Wallace after his mother. The bolder among them spoke of having peeked into the automobiles, of having seen the strange weapon of the Señor Henry Wallace (his tennis racket...
...businesses as well as their farms. She had taken over her husband's work of running the Paris Information Centre. Young Count René de Chambrun is a lieutenant on the Maginot Line. Like most wealthy Parisiennes. the Comtesse has also enrolled to drive her own sleek Hispano in emergency evacuation, succor wounded in case Paris is bombed...
...Santa Barbara. A choir of monks chanted age-old antiphons; 10,000 palms were strewn on the church steps; El Caudillo walked into the church under a white silk canopy held up by six priests. Before the high altar on which was placed a crucifix commemorating the great Hispano-Venetian naval victory at Lepanto in the 16th Century, the General surrendered his sword to Isidoro Cardinal Goma y Tomás, Catholic Primate of Spain, gave thanks for his victory "over the enemies of truth...