Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, in London, Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain barely deigned an allusion to the phrase "world revolution" while assuring the House of Commons that Britons were adequately protected in Shanghai. When a certain newsgatherer popped a question about "world revolution" at U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg, in Washington, it was reported that he "seemed annoyed, but not more nervous than usual." Finally, the Federal Council of Churches, most heeded mouthpiece of U. S. Protestantism expressed "sympathy for the Chinese people...
Fifty years ago, a gypsy boy of 17, with honeyed voice and horny hands, found God in the boom-diddy-boom of Salvation Army drums in the East London slums. General William Booth asked him to rejoice with a solo. "Keep your heart up, my boy," snickered a street lout who had not seen the light...
...London, all the symphonies, chamber music compositions, his only opera Fidelio, were offered. In Boston, at the exact moment of his death, the chimes of Tufts college rang the choral melody of the Ninth Symphony, while chapels, concert halls and symphony orchestras responded with other Beethoven music. In New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, New Orleans, Portland, it was the same. The next day, Sunday, churches of all sects, worshiped in his music. Perhaps the comedy was finished, for every tribute grand enough to be fitting the memory Ludwig van Beethoven consisted of the music created...
...like his countryman, French Ambassador Paul Claudel (TiME, March 21). combines diplomacy and literature. Having been educated at L'Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris, having served as attache at the embassies in London, Rome, Madrid and the Orient, M. Morand quickly turned his energies to fiction and a study of the Negro. He is best known in the U. S. for his book, Open all Night. Thirty-nine, married, high-foreheaded, dark, hv tops the new generation of French and sensuous realists. "M. Claudel," said he, "is the greatest of Catholic poets...
Italian Financing Credit Consortium for Public Works, the institution created by order of the Italian Government to finance Italian shipbuilding, tried to borrow $12,000,000 in Manhattan last week, and simultaneously $8,000,000 in London. The Italian Government is now considering the creation of a stock company, under patronage of the Export Institute, to give commercial credits to exporters of Italian goods...