Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London the British Admiralty released a communiqué from which three facts appeared. First that the British were now receiving the first official intimation that the L55 was ever sunk. Second that the Admiralty had announced on June 12, 1919, eight days after the sinking, that a submarine (unnamed) was missing from the British Baltic Fleet. Third, that the relatives and next of kin of the Britishmen lost on the L55 were privily notified...
Coincident with this new eruption of an old but by no means superannuated volcano, came a statement from the London Times to the effect that its readers might soon expect the publication of a comparatively complete report of the oft-reported but still mysterious Malines Conversations. In its statement, the Times asserted that at the time of the Malines Conversations an unofficial representative of the Vatican expressed Rome's willingness to grant the British Primate a rank in the Roman hierarchy "equal to and perhaps above the cardinals," should he desire to accept the Roman Catholic faith...
...Scottish castle of Achnacarry, whither he had gone as the guest of its famed tenant, Director-General Sir Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch Shell Oil (TIME, Aug. 20), Walter Clark Teagle, president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, last week sent a telegram. It was addressed to the London office of the Associated Press. In effect it read: "Tut-tut!" Actually it read...
Despite such positive disclaimers of mystery, the London press persisted. The Daily Express found its reporters "rebuffed in all attempts" to get information. But lynx-eyed newsgatherers discovered "a complete secretariat" and a number of other (unnamed) oil officials concealed in the castle, or, more mysteriously, "in its neighborhood...
...further his studies; instead, he had asked Harry Braun to come to Europe with him. This week, fiddler and financier sail together; after that there will be scenes abroad in which Harry Braun plays for kings and queens or performs as soloist for Paris philharmonic societies or the London Symphony, while Otto Kahn stands and listens. In New York, a job with the Philharmonic awaits...