Word: nevinson
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...American rodeo at the British Empire Exhibition is not popular with a certain section of the public. John Galsworthy, famed author, and Henry W. Nevinson, international correspondent of The Manchester Guardian, loudly condemned it for its cruelty. Said the latter: "I think that everybody who agrees with our view of the rodeo should take a vow never to go near such a performance. We should appeal to the President of the Exposition, the Prince of Wales, to say he would never go to it and that would be sufficient in itself to stop...