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...second circle of Miss West's inferno is that of the grotesques-those who were more developed but scarcely older than the children. Some were, like Kenneth Edward, merchant seamen. Some were British prisoners of war who went over to the Germans. Some had been members of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Almost all became members of the British Free Corps...
...Oswald Theodore Avery, 70-year-old bacteriologist at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; for his 30-year study of pneumonia germs (pneumococci) which has helped reduce U.S. pneumonia deaths from...
Britain was certainly not going Fascist, but the recent progress made by Sir Oswald Mosley's old friends was a symptom of how sick, politically and economically, Britain was. Young Laborite M.P. Woodrow Wyatt visited some of these meetings. Last week, in the New Statesman and Nation, he reported on what he had seen...
...Author. Philip Toynbee, 31, son of famed British Historian Arnold Toynbee and grandson of Oxford's Professor Gilbert Murray, is no chip off the old block. At 17 he ran away from school at Rugby, later became a Communist, was beaten up by Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts at a fascist meeting. He got into Oxford with difficulty and became the first Communist president of the Union (Oxonian debating society). He later rejected Communism, joined the army as a Welsh Guardsman in 1940, was "commissioned as an intelligence officer and wound up in the Ministry of Economic Warfare...
...Civil War. Up-&-coming ports like Houston snatched the title of No. i cotton shipper and took the business away. New Orleans shippers talked about snatching it back, but nothing much came of the talk until Governor Sam Jones in 1940 appointed a chunky cotton merchant named Edward Oswald ("Archie") Jewell to boss the Board of Port Commissioners (the "dock board''), which operates the 7½ miles of publicly owned quays and warehouses...