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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke of Atholl for violation of the lotteries act. The judge granted it, calling His Grace before the grimy Bow Street bar next week to answer to the Crown for his wit. Atholl had popular British sympathy last week because everyone knew he had really been trying to save for British charities some of the vast sum that annually goes across the Irish Sea to the perfectly legal Irish Free State Hospitals Sweepstakes...
...knows what they are. The initials stand for Practical Military Engineering because it is the standard lunch for engineers. It consists of two sandwiches, one piece of cake, and one piece of fruit. We were allowed to eat the lunch any time we desired, but we usually tried to save it until eleven or twelve o'clock because we ordinarily had nothing more to eat until after the game...
...doubt, the slogan policy of the Tories for the next elections. Speaking with studied warmth, he declared that in England lay the last hope of the world for the preservation of Democracy; elsewhere it was in ruins. And it was the sacred mission of the Conservative Party to save Great Britain at all costs from a proletarian dictatorship. Disregarding the obvious point that at the present this shot is aimed at a dummy, since the Labour Party officially adopted the same plank for its platform, one wonders whether or not the Tories might not at some later date feel themselves...
...procession marched some 1,000, among them an academic section escorting Vice-Chancellor Will Spens of Cambridge University; acolytes, choir-singers, Sunday-school children; Cowley Fathers in black cassocks; black-habited Holy Cross Monks; Franciscans in grey wool habits and sandals; dozens of Bishops all in copes & mitres save two who wore low-church chimera and academic hoods (one of these. Bishop Francis Marion Taitt of Pennsylvania, had welcomed the Congress saying his diocese had all sorts of churchmanship "but most churches get along neighborly"). In the sermon of the Mass Bishop Perry exclaimed: "The way of communion with...
...frontal attack and a use of force if thwarted in legislative demands. If Sir Stafford Cripps can be considered typical of present, Labour party opinion, the only slogan to which it will have any right will be "On to Bigger and Better Defeats." Only a political miracle can save the party from collapse if it breaks down before the issue once more; only a series of unexpectedly crude tactics by the Conservatives will shock the Labourites into a realization of the immensity and the necessity of their real task. And by that time it may be too late. CASTOR...