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...King and his wife. The evening Star reported last week that the couple propose to devote their future to social work in England as soon as "calumnies and slander" have abated. A stanch little pro-Windsor party in Britain, who would like nothing better, regarded it as a favorable omen that the Duke last week sent $500 to a Leicestershire agricultural society for a new fair ground and the Duchess $25 to a fund for a new church school in Warfield, Berkshire, from which one of her ancestors sailed for the New World...
...social movement, but on the whole, the reflection is blurred. This, however, is not the point; "John Meade's Woman" is not a good picture in itself, but it does show the beginning of an awareness for a new type of material, and as such it is an omen...
...studying how to demonstrate, the loud groans of the sinking College came to their ears; and hoping that their example might provoke the rest of the country to an holy emulation in so good a work, and the General Court itself vigorously to act, for the diverting of the omen of calamity, which its destruction would be to New Tangled,' declare that a voluntary collection had been made among the inhabitants which authorized the town to pledge the payment of 'sixty pounds sterling a year for seven years ensuing; to be improved by the Overseers of the College...
Never before had observers seen Franklin Roosevelt go so earnestly to bat for anything. It was an omen that the beginnings of the Supreme Court battle (see col. 2) were but a mild foretaste of what is yet to come. To those who believe Franklin Roosevelt is the shrewdest judge of political trends in the U. S. it meant also that the outcome of the battle is more uncertain than that of any which the New Deal has yet fought...
...good omen in Spain last week that this distressing state of Miaja affairs ended without another such butchery as had already wiped out, in both White and Red territory, some 120,000 innocent non-combatants in Spain's savage, stalemated civil war (TIME, July 27 et seq.). A quiet little deal was arranged by General Miaja through intermediaries with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Of the quid pro quo only half was disclosed. What Franco got was not revealed, though he was rumored to have bought the lives of several prominent Whites; but what General Miaja got was his great...