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Title of Iseman's research and writing is "A perfect Sympathy" a study of the influence of Sir Thomas Browne upon Charles lamb...
Almost to a man the Prime Minister's Conservative Party cracked down on the tax. It was described as "monstrous," as "the most disastrous proposal any government has put forward since the War." Only one Government supporter praised the measure-Sir John Simon, who as newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer had to speak well of it. Neville Chamberlain was in the unenviable position of being opposed by the Party of which he had been appointed leader that very...
...Sir Alexander Grant died last month. His will was probated last week. Under its terms Ramsay MacDonald will receive for the rest of his life the income from $200,000, about $7,500 a year. To Ramsay MacDonald this windfall is happily not so all-important financially as loyal, generous Sir Alexander had thought it would be. By an act of Parliament, passed after the will was made, Mr. MacDonald is entitled to a pension of $10,000 a year as a onetime Prime Minister. Moreover, because fortnight ago he decided to stay in the House of Commons rather than...
After mature deliberation Sir Stanley Baldwin, K. G. announced that his new title would be the Earl Baldwin, Viscount Corvedale and not Bewdley as most Britons had expected. Bewdley, the district in Worcestershire which Stanley Baldwin represented continuously in Parliament since 1908, was closely connected in the minds of British cartoonists with the pigs Squire Baldwin has long raised there. To bear the courtesy title of Viscount Corvedale at once is Earl Baldwin's Laborite Son Oliver who remains, until his father's death, eligible for the House of Commons...
...attendance at the Royal Academy was disappointing, sales were not. Burlington House announced last week that sales during the first two weeks of the show were up $5,000 over the same period in 1936. Even the venerable president of the Academy, Sir William Llewellyn, G.C.V.O., got in the money by selling a cautious landscape...