Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Than His Worship Sir Alfred Louis Bower, Lord Mayor of London and His Eminence Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster,* there are no better Roman Catholics in all Britain. Yet, mirabile dicta, both declined to attend, last week, a meeting of the Catenian? Association in London. The reason was quite simple?on the program, the toast to Pope Pius XI preceded the toast to King George...
Beyond a declaration that France desired the peace and stability of the world, M. Briand said nothing and his policy was identical to that followed by the Herriot Cabinet. It was understood that, inasmuch as M. Briand is shortly to go to London to meet Mr. Chamberlain, he was not opposed in principle to the pact offered by Germany and sponsored by Britain (TiME, Mar. 16, INTERNATIONAL...
...semi-officially announced that Finance Minister Caillaux will pay an early visit to Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill at London...
...Russia had a gold deposit valued at $847,500,000. Owing to a London transfer, the Bolsheviki inherited only $582,000,000. Of the last sum, $350,000,000 was transferred to Kazan, where Admiral Kolchak was prompt to seize $340,000,000?all of which was in one way or another dissipated. The Bolsheviki, however, recouped themselves by their victories to the extent of $320,000,000 and, therefore, were the net losers of only $20,000,000. Thus, Communism inherited $562,000,000 worth of Capitalism's estate...
...EAMES-ERSKINE CASE ?A. Fielding? Knotf ($2.00). An unknown man is found dead from an overdose of morphine, locked (from the inside) in the wardrobe of a hotel room in London. There is a balcony before the room window, so that anyone on the same floor of the hotel and of another hotel adjoining might have committed the murder. The clues are spread out before the reader with commendable fairness, but in baffling number. Two plots are so skilfully woven together that one has to wait for the writer to unravel them. Not until two-thirds...