Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worry. It was a hot day in August 1934. Lewis W. Douglas, now Harry Truman's Ambassador to London, had just resigned from the budget post in protest over the New Deal's heavy spending; Douglas had vainly championed a balanced budget. Morgenthau got a hasty summons from Franklin Roosevelt. The President was taking a bath when the Secretary of the Treasury bustled in. "Henry," said F.D.R. blandly, "I give you until midnight to get me a new Director of the Budget...
Just before sunset one day last week, cool John Cobb of London squeezed his 200 lbs. into the cockpit of his two-engined, ice-cooled racing car. It was his last chance of the year: the rainy season was at hand on Utah's Bonneville salt flats. The cowling was bolted into place on top of him; a truck gave the car a push. At 20 m.p.h., the engine coughed and then settled into a steady roar. At 140 m.p.h., Cobb shifted into second gear, into high at 240 m.p.h. About halfway down the 14 mile course he entered...
...Workshop has already secured for its production the prompt script which the Old Vic used in its staging of the work in New York and London...
...classic black-&-white illustrations for Rabelais, Coleridge, Balzac, Dante, Cervantes and the Bible. His paintings were blandly ignored by 19th Century Paris, but Doré managed to sell the whole lot of them to an English dealer for $300,000. They were more to the taste of Victorian London. Queen Victoria bought a few herself, and for 21 years a Bond Street gallery exhibited the rest. Shipped to the U.S., the paintings were valued at $1,000,000 and viewed by over a million people in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Many wept over them; several clergymen felt inspired...
Winston Churchill, to whom admiring South Australian livestock men had sent a pair of white kangaroos, finally got around to the London Zoo in Regent's Park. But when he got there the pen was half-bare. The she-kangaroo had thrown herself against a fence and died...