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...Monster referred to was the dire denizen of Loch Ness, Scotland, first fabled in the world press in 1933. Opener of its 1937 season was an announcement by the Right Rev. Sir David Oswald Hunter Blair, Bart, (no kin to Dr. Reid Blair) that, at the age of 83, he was organizing an expedition to trace and trap the creature, bring it back alive...
Events in Brussels last week fateful to the future of European Democracy could handily be visualized in London terms. It was just as if No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley should put himself up as a candidate at a by-election and be taken so seriously that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin should step down to fight him man to man as the opposing candidate. Further, it was as if King George VI should spunkily issue denials of rumors that he was pro-Fascist; and as if the Archbishop of Canterbury should come crashing through at the last moment with...
...Members chortled at the policy of Home Secretary Sir John Simon in not having British police arrest Sir Oswald Mosley for his flagrant, daily violation of Parliament's recently enacted law barring in Britain the wearing of "political uniforms" such as a black shirt (TIME, Nov. 23). "I have worn this black shirt myself for six weeks!" cried Sir Oswald at a meeting of his BUF (British Union of Fascists). "Nothing has been done to me and we Fascists are beginning to assume that this black shirt I am wearing is not in the Government's view illegal...
Macy & Co. (mammoth Manhattan department store) when he did so well on a report about the linoleum industry that Executive Vice President Oswald Whitman Knauth made him his assistant. At 30, Mr. Hoving was himself a Macy executive vice president. In 1932 Sewell Lee Avery made him vice president & general sales manager of Montgomery Ward & Co. in Chicago, told him to put sex appeal into Ward's catalog, packaging, merchandising. Walter Hoving did a good job.- Last spring his old boss, Oswald Whitman Knauth, now president of Associated Dry Goods Corp., which controls eight U. S. department stores...
...Banners with similar slogans are lifted high outside the iron gates of Buckingham Palace. Tory organs begin to call the demonstrations "suspiciously professional," perhaps the work of Communists, for several British Reds have come out for the King and Mrs. Simpson. So has the No. 1 British Fascist, Sir Oswald Mosley, shouting from a husting, "How would you like a Cabinet of old busybodies to pick your girl?" In Whitehall, Mr. Winston Churchill and his followers are now openly called "The King's Men," in Britain a most ominous title dating back to bloody affrays between Crown and Commons...