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Home from Paris went Britain's top soldier, General Viscount Gort, who had "visited" French Chief of Staff General Maurice Gamelin; while in London French Air Minister Guy La Chambre paid his respects to British Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood. Early July 1914 saw no events more ominous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: MADMEN AND FOOLS | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Author Howe is at his best, however, in recapturing the charm and wit which held the Saturday Club and Boston dinner tables spellbound, prompting Charles Kingsley to stammer on his U. S. visit: "He is an insp-sp-sp-ired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holmes's Heir | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Hoare, Home Secretary, at Swansea. At Durham, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon reminded that the Empire's financial strength is "an important weapon of defense" and at Leeds, Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald keynoted that Britain's "will to victory . . . cannot be equaled." Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood opened a new aircraft works at Reading and announced that Britain's aircraft production had doubled during 1938, would probably treble this year. In an article, Earl Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralty, estimated that Britain will launch a warship a week during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Defiance, Deference, Defense | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...socially sound and so mathematically perfect." He became a salesman ten years ago when he was made manager of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. home office agency in Philadelphia, wrote as much as $3,000,000 worth of policies in one year. Last week when President William Kingsley moved up to the chairmanship, 52-year-old Vice President Stevenson succeeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Ex-Teacher | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

After Abbott disposed of Chapman, and Turnesa eliminated Kingsley, Ellsworth Vines found himself basking in the fame of his traveling companion, who had theretofore been a comparative unknown in spite of the fact that he had won the National Public Links championship two years ago. The gallery of 3,000, who turned out for the final, made "Little Willie" the sentimental favorite. They all knew that he was the son of an Italian greenskeeper, that his six brothers had chipped in to put him through Holy Cross, insisted that he become a gentleman golfer and made him remain an amateur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Willie | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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