Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Simon returned to London from India last week. He is the great Liberal barrister who is Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 9 et seq.). The Seven Wise Commissioners have now completed their first visit to India, a visit which has been punctuated by numerous riots and demonstrations against them. Their mission is to recommend, after much further study, what additional measure of sovereignty shall be extended to Indians. Last week Sir John struck a significant keynote when he said: "The Commission will recommend no sweeping changes in the Indian form of Government. The Indian people...
Members of the Toronto Camera Club harkened humbly, last week, to a visiting and lecturing maestro: Richard Neville Speaight Esq. of London, semi-official photographer to the Court of St. James's. "On one occasion," confided Maestro Speaight amid a hush, "I was obliged to pace the floor for two hours with an infant son* of Princess Mary in my arms before the child stopped crying and enabled me to make a satisfactory portrait...
...before their marriage, last October, she had taken the plane up above London to establish an altitude record of 19,000 feet. A few weeks later, she had kissed Sir James goodbye, embarked for Cape Town, South Africa, whence she quickly began to fly across all Africa toward London. If she succeeded, a new female flight record would be hers, but a rival, an "other woman" loomed...
...Bailey, 63. The gold of Sir Abe came from diamond mines and from other oldtime South African transactions which gained for him the dubious title of "one of Cecil Rhodes' young men." Lady Mary had given him five children and he had supplied a town house in London, a country place in Suffolk, a 200,000-acre ranch in Rhodesia, and plenty of airplanes...
...sooner did Lady Mary hear that Lady Sophie had recovered from the fever, and was really about to resume the Cape Town-London flight, than she called for her latest and staunchest Moth, and hopped over the British channel. But she had no wish to flaunt a rivalry. Therefore, since her diamond-mining husband, Sir Abe, happened to be in South Africa, she announced that she was taking the most leisurely trip to visit him and that quite incidentally she would be the first woman to fly the London-Cape Town wastes...