Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London last week the stockholders of Imperial Airways, Ltd. were informed by the Chairman of their board that they had lost ?20,414 ($99,200) last year in transporting passengers by air. "We lost fifteen thousand pounds in 1924!" cried an irate stockholder. "Where will this end, Sir Eric...
...Very Reverend, the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London*, published last week are of his many prophecies. Said he: "Everything points to a coming time of trial for the nation and the empire. It seems for every reason unlikely that our position as a world power will endure much longer. Much depends upon the friendliness of the United States on which we certainly cannot count, though of which we should not despair...
Hard by Lake Constance dwells a band of craftsmen skilled at a unique trade-the building of zeppelins. The late Graf von Zeppelin taught them the technique of their art and paid them well. During the War all Germany looked to them to float tons of explosives over London. Then came Versailles, and the building of zeppelins for Germany was forbidden. Almost, the great Zeppelin factories were ordered destroyed. Almost, the "zeppelin guild" on Lake Constance was scattered. These things did not take place because the Allies, covetous of reparations, agreed to accept payment in zeppelins...
This week, if he keeps safe from storm by night and peril in Canada, will arrive in the U. S. the Right Honorable and Right Reverend Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Lord* Bishop of London. Guest of the Department of Religious Education of the National Council of the Episcopal Church, he will spend six weeks here, lecturing at colleges and schools. "You might also arrange," he wrote an executive, "for me to play tennis or squash raquets or golf with young men, as I am still playing all of these pretty well...
...practiced, in its higher degrees, only by amateurs, but when Bishop Ingram oversteps urbanity in his social assault upon the young persons submitted to his attention, he always has his Faith as an excuse. He has done an immense amount of good. He was appointed Lord Bishop of London at the early age of 43 upon nomination by the Crown after four years of a lesser episcopacy. Until that time he had been working in Bethnal Green, London, a slum district, full of immigrants, threaded with crooked little streets that began in Ireland and ended in Palestine; he had started...