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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that every effort will be made to keep them from learning any details of the negotiations now begun, until the four Great Powers are ready to issue communiqués (handouts), expected in about six weeks. Hitler last week was handed what Chamberlain had to say by British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson, who brought the papers personally from London. This week the Führer's reply will be taken to London by the new German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The French Ambassador was messenger boy in London last week for Premier Chautemps. From London this week British...
...Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, showed in his White Paper last week planned expenditures of $1,758,750,000 for the coming fiscal year which begins April 1, whereas the total for the previous fiscal year...
...British national defense tax (TIME, June 28), a five-year super tax on business organizations, is expected to yield $100,000,000. The Chancellor will borrow $450,000,000.† Income-tax yield, Sir John Simon hopefully announced, is now running 13% above last year in the United Kingdom, but his White Paper is frank in showing that the Chancellor has not planned as yet where he will get some $275,000,000 of the $1,758,750,000 he is sure Mother Britain is going to spend on Safety First...
Left. By the late Philip Alexius Laszlo de Lombos, Hungarian-born British subject, painter of kings, presidents, tycoons and socialites, who died last November at 68: a fortune of ?141,000. Only two British painters in the 20th Century, Walter William Ouless and Sir William Orpen, have left more...
...University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson, Palomar Mountain Observatories in California; of heart disease; in Pasadena, Calif. Foremost U. S. authority on the sun, Dr. Hale discovered magnetic fields in sun spots, for his discovery won the British Royal Society's Sir Godfrey Copley medal, of which the first award was to Scientist Benjamin Franklin...