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With their British political careers ripening as uneventfully as grain, Sir Bolton and Secretary for Air Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister had Viscountcies conferred upon them by George V last week. By accepting them they signified that neither has any ambition to become Prime Minister, considered impossible today for a member of the House of Lords...
...improve notably upon Hollywood methods of ballyhoo. The premiere of The Thirty-Nine Steps in London was preceded, not by a mere broadcast, but by a Gaumont-British banquet at which the guests of honor were Lord Tweedsmuir, Home Secretary Sir John Simon, Minister for Air Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister and their ladies...
...Hammered out of aristocratic Air Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister the admission that British firms are now selling aircraft engines to Germany to power the battle planes with which Realmleader Hitler has so upset the British public...
...sheet on a long wooden table, a couple of wooden buckets alongside and on a side table a basin of warm water. Handy were the heavy knives and other instruments Dr. McDowell operated with, the bayonet-like needles, silver suture wire, waxed thread for ligatures. Nothing was sterilized, for Lister's and Pasteur's work was still 60-70 years in the future...
Blushed Cunliffe-Lister: "I plead slightly guilty. I find to my surprise that I own three shares of Vickers stock bringing me dividends of 7½ shillings a year. I thought I had sold all my Vickers holdings years ago." Star accusation of the session was made when Harry Pollitt, testifying on behalf of the British Communist Party, charged that George V's own cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, held 5,000 5% preference shares of Vickers...