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Died. Brigadier-General Hon. Charles Granville Bruce, 73, British World War veteran, who at 56 vainly dedicated his life to scaling Mount Everest; in London. Though General Bruce's two expeditions (1922 and 1924) failed to reach the top of the 29,141-ft. Himalayan mountain, none ever climbed so high...
...Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, wants to convince Adolf Hitler that Britain will allow him no further land grabs, one sure way to do it would be to give a Cabinet job to the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M.P. for Epping. For the past decade Mr. Churchill has been to the British man-in-the-street the personification of Empire do-or-die, and more recently as the British statesman most violently opposed to appeasing "the Huns." Accordingly he is one of the Führer's pet aversions. Several times Herr Hitler has gone...
...most tragic episodes . . . occurred when a ghost writer who was employed to write a farewell address for Hon. John White, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the 27th Congress . . . copied copiously from the farewell address delivered by Vice President Aaron Burr. . . . Mr. White, being unable to laugh at the comic position into which the ghost writer had placed him, was on the contrary so overcome with mortification and disgust that he committed suicide...
Once more a Buchmanite meeting, without making a great number of converts or stirring up a great deal of popular enthusiasm, had conveyed the impression that a great many important people were backing it. Of the more than 80 sponsors of the Washington gathering, nearly all bore "The Hon." before their names. Among them were six Cabinet members, a score of Senators, a spate of Congressmen. These big names had been gathered very much as supporters for a bill are gathered by lobbyists...
...onetime Assistant Attorney General Harry Wallace Blair. A number of other sponsors were devout men who were well aware that MRA was a Buchmanite enterprise; among them Senator Borah and Attorney General Murphy, who said: "I know nothing about [MRA] except what is good." But a majority of the Hon. sponsors were bandwagon jumpers and politicians whose attitude was, "Hell, it's not controversial, is it?" Republican Minority Leader Joseph William Martin Jr., who had signed a statement for the MRA meeting's program ("Moral Re-Armament is a great need of the day"), said: "Sure...