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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motorman Walter P. Chrysler was last autumn fined in Federal Court for failing to have his duck stamp on his hunting license (TIME, Nov. 9). But when Chaplain Phillips revealed the identity of his ignorant companion, Warden King tipped his hat. "I'll take your word for it, sir," said he, and respect fully rowed away...
...established last week that Edward VIII, a few hours before reading his Abdication broadcast, asked his three closest remaining attendants to accompany him to Austria, and they all gave the Duke quiet, steady-eyed refusals. His personal private secretary of 15 years, Sir Godfrey Thomas, an astute Welshman with a standing (and perhaps a future) in the British diplomatic service, simply "vanished." His personal bodyguard, Chief Inspector David Storier, vainly tried at Scotland Yard to get let off from guarding the Duke of Windsor. Both Mrs. Simpson and the Duke separately tried to retain the services of Chauffeur George Stanley...
...England there is only one producer of raw silk on a practical scale, and she is Lady Millicent Zoe Hart Dyke, nee Bond, wife of Engineer Sir Oliver Hamilton Augustus Hart Dyke, Bart. At present her small industry is enjoying brisk business, for the new Queen and the Duchesses of Gloucester and Kent have patriotically-commanded that their coronation gowns be made of British silk...
...Sir Oliver Hart Dyke's father was Sir William Hart Dyke, Disraeli's Parliament whip, friend of Charles Dickens, lawn tennis pioneer. Month after he died, aged 93, in 1931, his wife followed him to the grave. Inheritance taxes of $500,000 forced Son Oliver to stop living at Lulling-stone Castle, family seat of the Hart Dykes for almost 300 years. Enterprising Lady Hart Dyke promptly started a silkworm factory in Lullingstone Castle. "I've been very keen on silkworms since I was seven years old," she explained last week, "and later I began to study...
...Well, Sir, here we are again. . . . About all we need is our health. The rest we leave...