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This is commonly cited as the outstanding "Socialist" expression by Edward VIII and it was stretched at the time by some Laborites into an indication that "King Edward the Eighth will be England's first Socialist King!" Happily last week the nationwide coal strike which has been angrily brewing...
The difference in setting between the greatest English steeplechase and its only rival in the U. S. symbolizes other distinctions which make the races, except for their importance to steeplechase enthusiasts, as dissimilar as possible. The Grand National, over dreary flats near Liverpool, is run for a purse of approximately...
World-weary old gentlemen about to blow out their brains do not as a rule leave their horses to little girls who are delivering a steak. Champion racehorses are not apt to be raffled off for a shilling ticket.
"If your class goes to war," roared Scot McGovern at the Government Bench, "I hope the workers will use their rifles on the ruling classes! . . . We pay King George ?10,750 per week*. . . We pay ?25,000 yearly to the Duke and Duchess of Kent- or a shilling per minute...
Twenty thousand copies of the 350-page Linlithgow Report were released on its publication date last week in India and in England presses roared day and night, turning out this best seller at a shilling (24?). Contentedly the aloof civil servants of the Indian Office murmured last week, as they...