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...maternal great grandsire Earl Grey (Prime Minister 1830-34); .and so the Great Queen kept "that dear Ponsonby child" in her service for five whole years, placing him less than a decade later in the Diplomatic Service. Unfortunate Victoria! She could not know that in 1929?in fact this month???onetime Page Ponsonby would publish a most scathing and compactly venomous report exposing lies and shady tricks used by Allied and British statesmen...
...Club. The members were obtained (there are now 40,000) by assuring people they need no longer worry about what to read; or about remembering to buy. The eminent Selecting Committee decides for them; the efficient business staff buys for them. Harry Carrier brings a new book each month??? and if they dislike it they can send it back, ask for another...
...outstanding event of the month???perhaps of 1925?was the official resumption, last week, of the gold standard in Britain. Chancellor Churchill took his usual bold way. He resumed by resuming. Credit and trade in the U. S. as well as abroad was stimulated. His announcement showed how impressively Britain has buttressed her gold position to acquire a credit of $200,000,000 with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as well as one for $100,000,000 with J. P. Morgan & Co. It is probable that these credits will never be needed. In addition, the current Bank...
Then it was April, 1918, and the U-boats were sinking about 1,000,000 tons of Allied shipping per month???Mr. Schwab raced across the country from one shipyard to another. Tons of shipping slid completed from the ways...
...Berlin policeman gets 110 marks a month???about $25. He pays from 16 to 24 marks ($3.50 to $4.50) for the cheapest cotton shirt? 98 cents in any American department store, and other things in proportion. You can imagine how they live! And they are typical...