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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid parliamentary palaver on a proposed tobacco-tax increase, waspish Lady Nancy Astor, M. P., who abominates smoking & drinking, called smoking "almost a national crime." Said a fellow member: "Is this not rather strange talk coming from a daughter of Virginia?" Retorted Lady Astor: "I remember the Bishop of Virginia telling me 30 years ago he would sooner see his daughter drunk than smoking a cigarette...
...died in the same street in Pittsburgh's east end. He ate sparingly, rarely drank, never married. No intellectual, he read few books, but was fond of the theatre and made a hobby of collecting theatre programs, which he always had autographed by his companions. He was a member of Philadelphia's Union League Club, contributed regularly to the Republican Party...
...National Association of Broadcasters last fortnight sent the following advice to its 400-odd member stations: -"Any member considering the use of programs offered by the American Civil Liberties Union or the National Association of Manufacturers should write to Headquarters for information about these...
...stations writing to headquarters for information, the N. A. B. last week was busy explaining its position that both civil liberty and capitalism are "controversial" topics, and therefore dynamite. Its suggestions: 1) have the A. C. L. U. program read by a local A. C. L. U. member as a speech, not as "news"; 2) be sure to identify Orator Sokolsky's sponsor, to avoid letting his views seem to be those of the station...
Lazard Brothers & Co. of London is Aryan and aristocratic, a member of the Bank of England coterie, helps back the appeasement movement in London, favors the theory that concessions to Hitler will bring Dr. Schacht and his orthodox economics back to Berlin. It has a highly lucrative and increasingly important sideline in helping frightened European capitalists put their money into good safe American dollars. On the receiving end of this flood of gold from Europe is Lazard Freres of Manhattan, not entirely Aryan, not a Wall Street insider, still correspondent (but no longer a partner) of the highly political London...