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...Died. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 77, whimsical author of Peter Pan, The Little Minister, Sentimental Tommy; of bronchopneumonia; in London...
Anything but simple is the great legal mind of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, long the Empire's highest-paid lawyer. But one day last week he was suddenly congratulated by almost every London newspaper on being the author of what Britons dubbed good-humoredly "Simple Simon...
...Sir John, when he recently became Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in charge of a new tax trap designed for Rearmament profiteers but so objectionable to many potent Britons that there was nothing to do but hastily scrap the design. Its inventor was the Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, now Prime Minister, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer when he introduced it in the House of Commons as the National Defense Contribution (TIME, May 3). This bill was to help hugely in paying for Rearmament by taxing of British firms on a sliding scale proportionate to the rate...
...wangled by Lord Headley from the Nizam of Hyderabad & Berar, "world's richest man" (TIME, Feb. 22). Trustees of the mosque include the Aga Khan. The cornerstone was laid by the Nizam's son, the Prince of Berar, to whom the present chairman of trustees, Sir Abdul Qadir, read an illuminated address...
With the possible exception of the mosque in Paris, which charges five francs entrance fee and contains two cafés, the Nizamiah Mosque-designed on Oriental lines by Sir Brumwell Thomas-will be the finest in any non-Moslem land. For U. S. Mohammedans there are two places for formal worship, a small, three-story frame building in Brooklyn and a temple in Michigan City, Ind., whose 80 Moslems plan to build a mosque when they acquire enough money. Elsewhere Moslems who cannot gather in large groups are content to worship in one another's homes. Singapore...