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Philadelphia, March 18--Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, administrator of the NRA, was booed today every time his name was mentioned at a meeting of 800 union automobile workers and strikers at the Kensington Labor Lyceum...
...respectable community he considered it his duty to call attention to minor maladjustments, trust to public decency to right them. Time has not made obsolete all of Dickens' complaints but it has seen some of them answered. The open sewer that in his day meandered from Kensington Gardens into the Chelsea slums is there no longer; Dotheboys Hall is now an antique caricature; David Copperfields now toil in grammar schools instead of warehouses...
...Episcopal bishop. For outdoor wear the Church of England bishop affects long gaiters of snug black broadcloth. He is ranked a Lord and so addressed by his flock. But these distinctions have lately seemed irksome to Anglican clergymen. During the Oxford Movement centenary (TIME, July 17). the Bishop of Kensington complained of his gaiters, crying that "100 years have failed to provide us a sensible costume." And last week the Bishop of Bristol told his congregation to cease calling him "My Lord." Declared he: "In the old days, when Bishops were amicable scholars living in dignified ease apart from...
...Kensington Palace was the girlhood home of both Queen Mary and Queen Victoria. Their Majesties believe it far more comfortable than ornate Buckingham and less expensive to operate. It is now employed as a repository for King George's aunts: Princesses Louise and Beatrice...
...houses around Earl's Court subway station in west London, was sold to a syndicate last week for $3,430,000. Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness ("Guinness is Good for You!"), Earl of Iveagh and Dublin brewer, bought the estate from the executors of the fifth Baron Kensington...