Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scene of Rain, famed play which is now running in London...
...delved into the literature of music from which he "unfolded treasures that only learned students of art knew to be in existence." In 1908 he formed the Beecham Symphony Orchestra; turned soon after to opera, for which, from 1909 to 1919, he did more than any man in London. In 1915, he became conductor of the London Philharmonic Society. Spruce, brisk, genial, he is a good conductor, cultured impresario. He gave enormous amounts to Music, but, despite the immense wealth that his father left him, he was forced to retire temporarily in 1919 to untangle his finances, which were...
...City," London's financial district, opinions were divided. Some thought the move perfectly natural, as the London market was heavily depressed by industrial insecurity, slack trade, swamped by War loans and made expensive for borrowers by the recent return to a gold standard. Others naturally could not bear to see the U. S. taking the place of banker to the British Commonwealth of Nations. Neither was Australian opinion unanimously behind the move...
...dinner at which prominent men from Northern Ireland and from the Free State assembled was given last week by the Irish Club in London. Sir James Craig, Premier of Ulster, was unable to attend on account of the death of his brother; President (Premier) William T. Cosgrave of the Free State was unable to be present; but Governor General "Tim" Healy of the Irish Free State, "Tay Pay" O'Connor (the only Irish Nationalist member of the House of Commons-known as "the Father of the House"), and the Duke of York, among others, were present...
...short time ago Washington proposed, somewhat nebulously, that an international conference might soon be called to reconsider the attitude of foreign Powers toward Chinese domestic affairs. It is now common knowledge in diplomatic circles, although it is not admitted, that Washington obtained the previous agreement to this proposal from London. At all events, the effect was that last week France ratified two Nine-Power Treaties signed in 1922 at Washington, thereby clearing the stage for concerted action by the nine Powers (the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium and China...