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...Buck House, however, the 28-year-old Premier Duke found the mind of the 42-year-old King-Emperor already made up that his Coronation procession should be the shortest possible and his Coronation ritual the simplest possible. Soon announced was an official route so short that the only way to make the publicly visible part of the Coronation any shorter would be to cut from Buckingham Palace straight across the park to Westminster Abbey. Seat prices along the official route promptly soared last week to as much as $200 for a small chair on a precarious roof ledge...
...Samuel Hoare, for they implied a brand new concept of Empire strategy. Since the Suez Canal was opened (with Britain as a major shareholder since 1875 by Disraeli's finesse), the King's subjects have been taught that the "Lifeline of Empire" runs through Suez. This shortest route to India must at all costs be dominated by Britain, so ran the popular dogma and so the British Admiralty has stiffly held. Today, however, with Italy triumphant and formidably facing Suez, London was fast telling itself last week that an alternative route to India must at once...
Last winter when President Roosevelt assigned his new Federal Reserve Board appointees to the staggered terms provided by law, he gave the shortest term (two years) to Ralph Waldo Morrison, a husky Texas utilitarian who had contributed $25,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 1932. Mr. Morrison's tenure proved shorter than the shortest term. Last week, after only four months in office, he sent his resignation to the White House. In his home town of San Antonio Mr. Morrison offered no explanation for his resignation, simply issuing this statement: "The obligations of the Federal Reserve Board...
Stimulus for Andrews' review of sunspots comes from a letter asking for a list of sunspot maximum and minimum dates running back to 1850. A table lists them to 1610, in which time the longest period of intermission has been 15 years and the shortest...
Racing with Carter for the Crimson will be Dunny Carpenter, Dave Emerson, Charley Rogers, and Bob Shaw. The three who complete the run in the shortest time will make up the team...