Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pointed out that the idea of model assemblies is not new. Right after the conclusion of the World War many such groups sprang up. Students at London, Paris, and many smaller places were organized into international assemblies...
...stockholders in British General Electric Co., Ltd., last week congratulated themselves upon the brains & brawn of the two representatives whom they had last month (TIME, April 1) sent to London. For well had Commissioners Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne and Herbert Bayard Swope performed their duties. True, Commissioner Chadbourne had been taken with a chill, and both Commissioners Chadbourne & Swope had excursioned to Paris, there to witness a contemporary demonstration of the ancient truth that one horse can run faster than another. But between chills, thrills, the U. S. representatives had also won a complete, a memorable, a monumental victory. For last...
Frank Billings Kellogg was caught last week by London newsgatherers between the studio of Philip Alexius Laszlo de Lombos, who is painting a Kellogg portrait to hang in the State Department at Washington, and a golf course. Said Mr. Kellogg: "I said almost everything one could say in regard to international peace during my term as Secretary of State. . . . As one of the authors of the Peace Pact, I should not talk about it, but I feel satisfied that it made a great impression throughout the world...
Died. Sir Hildebrand Aubrey Harmsworth, 57, of London, British journalist (New Liberal Review, The Globe), brother of famed British journalists Lord Rothermere (Harold Sidney Harmsworth) and the late Lord Northcliffe (Alfred Charles William Harmsworth) ; in London...
...Peregrine, fat and lovable scientist who rose to planes of pure intellect, and his wife Ann who reached for realms of pure spirit only to be dragged back to the slough of human passions. The human types chosen to epitomize extant evolutionary types are the horse-faced woman of London society; the young aviator who just misses loving his machine more than his woman; Martha, earthy female; Patrick, vivid sensualist in restless search of the meaning of life. By ordinary standards, their story is howling melodrama, but in a setting of cosmic proportions it fades to the decent outlines...