Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Administration. "If Colonel Smith doesn't accept the inevitable and resign, the Republican voters should place in the field as a protest candidate a strong, clean Republican on an Administration anticorruption platform. Personally, I should be happy to support such a candidate." In New London, Conn., Col. Frank L. Smith, recuperating from an illness, read his papers, said curtly: "I do not feel called upon to answer Julius Rosenwald or any other individual." Meanwhile, Mr. Rosenwald arrived at White Pine Camp, became slightly ill, postponed his session with the President for a day. Finally they conversed. The press...
...last seriously curtailed by lack of coal, a conference was held last week between miners and owners. Britain waited expectant while President Evan Williams of the Mine Owners' Association conferred directly for the first time since June with President Herbert Smith of the Miners' Federation, at London. Mr. Smith had just received a mandate- from the striking miners to negotiate. He announced himself willing to compromise on every point but one-the present seven-hour miners' day must not be lengthened by a moment. Suave, but inflexible, Mr. Williams replied that the owners demand "revision" (lengthening...
...Right Reverend Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, landed in Canada last week, proceeded to Toronto. Newsgatherers told that he, beloved as "the peoples' Bishop," had christened a Russian Mennonite infant from the steerage in mid-Atlantic. Before an expectant audience at Toronto he declared...
...earth. The spiral is always counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern. The "path" of a cyclone is determined by the larger air currents in which the spiral motion occurs, as an eddy is carried down a brook.) In England, townsfolk living north and west of London scrambled from their beds before dawn, panic-stricken by sounds of falling crockery and chimney pots. Through the lanes of Duddleston fled a yokel in a nightshirt screaming, "The end of the world has come!" In Hereford, the town clock struck thrice though it was really five o'clock...
...Aquarium, antiquated but visited by millions annually (and now being re-stuccoed) after years of supremacy in the U. S. A commission of experts was sent last autumn to study aquaria abroad-the invertebrate collection at Naples, biological research at Monaco, artificial salinity in Berlin, lighting of tanks in London. Mr. Rosenwald's industrial museum gift paralleled the $2,500,000 bequest by the late Henry R. Towne, lock and hardware man, to New York for a Museum of Peaceful Arts (TIME, April 12): Mr. Towne had been interested in such a museum by Dr. George F. Kunz, mineralogist...