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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another British Ambassador and another Premier, "Honest Broker" Pierre Laval, presently haggled out this minimum in Paris (see p. 15), but the urgent warning Sir Eric flashed to London had direct, immediate results. In London spade-bearded Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi was invited to Whitehall. There soothing assurances were poured into his ear by British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare. Next a public speech was made by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in which he declared that no British Government hostility exists toward Italian Fascism and none toward the Dictator...
Married. Kathryn Schrafft, plump opera-singing daughter of the late Candy Tycoon George F. Schrafft; and Sir Peter Norton-Griffiths, handsome London barrister; in Newton, Mass...
...Died. Sir John Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 71, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, holder of 14 peerages, chieftain of the clan Scott, prospective father-in-law of George V's third son, the Duke of Gloucester (TIME, Sept. 9); in Selkirk, Scotland...
...asked me if I write all the articles I sign. That, Sir, is not a very complimentary question. . . . I am a professional newspaperman, Mr. Mallon, and I have been working at the newspaper business-not playing with it, but working at it-day & night for over 50 years. . . . Of course I write my signed articles, and many more that I do not sign. . . . I do not think it is such a trick to write. Anybody who can think can write...
...corpses, she filed an exclusive story, organized an emergency hospital, got Publisher Hearst to send relief trains. Another time, disguised as a Salvation Army lass, she visited the "lowest dives" of the Barbary Coast, wrote a stirring series on vice. She covered the Thaw murder trial, interviewed everyone from Sir Henry Irving to President Harrison, visited the leper colony at Molokai. When Mr. Hearst's mother died in 1919, "Annie Laurie" wrote the official press obituary, later turned out a 54,000-word biography of Phoebe Apperson Hearst in twelve days...