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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Ramsay MacDonald advised King George to appoint this Royal Commission in one of his last acts as Prime Minister, naming as chairman benevolent, octogenarian Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal. Sittings last week were in the half-moon-shaped, oak-paneled Council Chamber of ancient Middlesex Guildhall opposite Westminster Abbey. Acoustics were so poor that proceedings could not be heard in the gallery...
Britain's foremost armament firms, Vickers Ltd. and Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., sent their joint Board Chairman, sleek, tall General Sir Herbert A. Lawrence. once Chief of Staff of the B. E. F. in France, and their bland, trim, assured General Manager Sir Charles Craven, famed in Mayfair for his mannerism of "talking down to the ruling class." The Chairman of the Royal Commission asked if in Vickers' experience bribery is necessary to obtain armament orders outside of Britain...
...difficult question to answer," replied Sir Charles, "but I should say that roughly the farther you get from here the looser the morals are." (Explosions of loud laughter...
...believe, as almost every one does that something should be done for the Farmers", said Mr. Saltonsfall, "but I was not in favor of the methods employed by the AAA. The Supreme court decision has served to clear the sir, I think." The problem of what form the Fram relief might take he considers a highly complicated question, and could offer no constructive suggestion at present...
Audiences never tire of talking about Britain's No. 1 conductor. His father was Sir Joseph Beecham, an amateur veterinarian who made a fortune with patent pills, earned a baronetcy with his many philanthropies and still left plenty for his son to squander on music. Sir Thomas once went bankrupt for the sake of music in England. At a conservative estimate his losses have amounted to over...