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...vacation plans were announced by the King who fortnight ago canceled his summer lease on the $350,000 villa on the French Riviera of Actress Maxine Elliott (TIME, Aug. 3). He turned last week to the "Richest British Widow," Lady Yule, whose husband Sir David ("The Scottish King of the Indian Jute Trade") left some $100,000,000 to her and Daughter Gladys. To King Edward, Lady Yule leased her $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin (an Indian name meaning "Fleetfoot...
...radical Independent Laborites Buchanan and Campbell Stephen, the Conservative occupant of the chair showed favor by merely chiding Mr. Cocks for using the word "liar." Taxed with favoritism, the Speaker sniffed: "I have to deal with cases as I find them." This touched off John McGovern, a third Scottish Independent Laborite famed for having once loudly abused King George (TIME...
...there is one rule for the Independent Labor Party and another for the Labor Party in this House," shouted Jock in his thickest Scottish burr, "then I say the Home Secretary is a liar...
Lonely, fearing he was the only one of his kind on earth, John went off to the Scottish Highlands to think things over. There he learned to live like a savage, learned also how to add a cubit to his spiritual stature. When he came back to civilization he was able to communicate telepathically with other superior human beings like himself. Most of the older ones were in insane asylums. But gradually John collected a motley little band of superior children, took them off to an uncharted Pacific island to found a real civilization. Before they could do much...
...goods annually. The English Co-Operative Wholesale Society, corresponding to Sweden's K. F., is the biggest distributing organization in the British Empire. It has a $700,000,000 bank, a $100,000,000 insurance company. It owns its own steamships, coal mines, olive groves, and, with the Scottish Wholesale, the world's biggest tea plantations. It is the No. i buyer of Canadian wheat, the No. 1 British miller, No. 1 shoemaker and second only to Lever Brothers in soapmaking. Its factories turn out everything from corsets to oil cake, from automobiles to saddlery...