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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago has no War memorial. Planning one, the city offered a $20,000 prize for a design. Last week, Rotarians were startled to read in their monthly magazine The Rotarian, some suggestions by Chicago War Hero Harold R. ("Private") Peat, "winner of more than one medal for distinguished service." Neither an artist nor an architect, Hero Peat's interest in a War memorial was not esthetic but moral. Said...
...First Mrs. Eraser by limping St. John Ervine (TIME, Nov. 18), the royal attention bent to two more plays, of ascending gravity. First The Middle Watch, a decorous farce of life in the British Navy by Major John Hay Beith; second, gripping Journey's End, by R. C. Sherriff, enthusiastically recommended by the Prince of Wales.* Author Sherriff was summoned to the Royal...
London papers carried a business announcement last week of the formation of a new corporation, to be known as R. C. Sherriff Ltd. "to acquire the copyright of all and any existing and future literary, dramatic, and artistic works of R. C. Sherriff and to carry on the business of publishers and booksellers." Capital: $5,000. Directors: R. C. Sherriff, Mrs. Sherriff, E. Tudor Mash...
...Lady Astor, famed for Parliamentary courage, canceled an engagement to fly with 100 members of both Houses of Parliament last week in Britain's new passenger dirigible R-101. Into the Noble Lady's breach stepped Labor's Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, M.P. Then rain canceled the flight...
Mandeville, Brooks & Chaffee, Providence, R. I., brokerage house, the first Manhattan Stock Exchange member to go under in the recent crash, was last week suspended by the Stock Exchange for inability to meet its obligations. Liabilities...