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Three days later British Secretary for War Viscount Hailsham crossed the Channel with 40 British staff officers including General Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd. Chief of the Imperial Gen eral Staff, and set out from Paris as guests of the French General Staff for a four-day tour of the Franco-Belgian frontier and Wartime battlefields...
Although information about Artist Smith is scant the history of most of the sitters is well-known. Reunited once more on the walls of the museum were men who had been friends and enemies. Sir William Phips made his fortune by discovering a wrecked Spanish treasure ship. An incompetent, wasteful Governor of Massachusetts, he was hanging near his friend William Stoughton whom he appointed chief justice of a special tribunal to rid the land of witches. In 1692 Phips, alarmed at Stoughton's wholesale convictions, rescinded his last batch of execution orders. Enraged, Stoughton "refused to sitt upon...
...good omen was the finding in London, just before Sir Bernard left, of a pair of legs in a suitcase left at King's Cross Station which proved to be the legs of the Brighton torso. As he went to work Sir Bernard Spilsbury preserved the Sherlock Holmes tradition of keeping mum, but he had his Dr. Watson in Chief Detective Pelling. The sole clue seemed to be that both legs and torso were wrapped in the same sort of brown wrapping paper and on the paper around the torso appeared the letters...
...Reichsbank's balances of foreign exchange as to have set up "a hidden reserve equal to many times the amount of interest on the Dawes and Young loans" lately repudiated by Dr. Schacht (TIME, June 25). The British note, probably the stiffest yet signed by Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, accused the Reichsbank by inference of falsifying its statistics and branded Dr. Schacht as a willful saboteur of German credit. "The policy of Germany," Sir John charged, "is to claim that no foreign exchange resources are available to meet the service on her loans, and then to apply resources...
Contenders. Racing for the America's Cup cost approximately $1,000,000 an hour in 1930. Rainbow is considered by Harold Vanderbilt an economy boat. Using some of the equipment of Enterprise, the Cup defender which beat the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V in 1930, she cost only $5,000,000. Rainbow was built in 97 working days at the Herreshoff shipyards at Bristol, R. I. where Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, now 85 and retired, had designed and built five successful defenders. Rainbow was designed like Enterprise by William Starling Burrgess. She has seven suits of sails...