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...John Eldon Bankes, last week watched his eminently dignified investigation skid off into the ditch of sensationalism. First a spokesman for 26 peace organizations uprose to charge that two members of the present Cabinet owned shares in the great munitions firm of Vickers: the Right Honorable Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary for the Colonies (25 shares); and the Right Honorable Sir John Gilmour, Home Secretary (3,066 shares). "It cannot be healthy," said the peace spokesman, "if it is known that members of the Cabinet may be in a position to benefit personally, however slightly, from the breakdown of armament...
...award in landscape architecture went to a graduate of Harvard and of Cornell's College of Architecture: James Mackenzie Lister...
Last week Winners Green, Proctor and Lister went to Manhattan to be with their winning entries in the Prix de Rome show at the Grand Central Art Galleries. Confronted with a microphone they spoke a few words of modest thankfulness for the two idyllic years ahead...
...Were shushed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and Colonial Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister when Laborite M. P.'s demanded to know whether Britain's Gibraltar-like "Big Five" banks were burned in the peanut oil, pepper and shellac crashes (TIME, Feb. 18, 25) and whether a crash in London's tin market may not be imminent...
...Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler. adapted by Jessie Ernst: A. H. Woods, producer). Baron Cassini (Francis Lister) is a bigwig of the Paris Bourse. Eugene Charlier (Francis Lister ) is a peewee entertainer at the Red Cat Cabaret. They look alike. When business reasons make it expedient for the Baron to be in two places at once, he goes to England while Charlier impersonates him at home. When the Baron returns, he hops into bed with the Baroness (Ruth Weston), thinking she thinks he is his double. Out of this situation Authors Lothar and Adler work the last bit of suggestiveness...