Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediately drew fire from New Jersey's redheaded Congressman Fred Hartley, committee chairman and coauthor of the Taft-Hartley Act. Hartley's voice trembled with outrage as he cried: "Do you know that the London Gramophone Corp. is flying records to the United States, and that it brought in twelve tons this week and that 250,000 more records are on the way? These British companies will make lots of "money...
Cabled TIME'S London Bureau Chief John Osborne: "Perhaps Bevin's words seemed flat to his British hearers because so much of his history had already been made. Part of the profound change that has overtaken Britons in the last year has been the growing awareness that they are Europeans, no longer islanded in glorious and superior detachment. Recognition of Russia as Britain's enemy and European Communism as the enemy's instrument has proceeded apace for many months; the process is now well nigh complete...
...Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 5 sides). Toscanini's second try on records at the "Haffner" still falls short of Toscanini's heights; this one still lacks the spaciousness and grace of Sir Thomas Beecham's performance with the London Philharmonic. Recording: good...
...Fund, to which both Britain and France belong, was set up to place some controls over governmental currency manipulations. Despite the objections of both the Fund and London's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, Premier Schuman's government decided that this hand had to be played alone if necessary because of the fall in exports. The squabble will not help ideas of West European unity along in the face of the worst economic crisis since 1932. But the worst blow will be dealt to the hope that the bank would replace the economic law of the jungle with...
...Mark), even had the foresight to see the islands as a "commanding sentry-box for an armed squadron." And his humorous lectures on the islands, when he got back home, gave him his first widespread reputation (he outdrew Actress Fanny Kemble 1,500 to 200 in Pittsburgh, packed London's largest hall six nights running...