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...speech against Scot MacDonald's bill for amending the unemployment insurance laws, his first since he resigned from the Labor Party (TIME, March 9). Presently he was joined by the other three members of his Party in the House: his beauteous wife Lady Cynthia, Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey and William Edward David Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Oswald & Co. | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...Jean Sheehy asks $5,500. Irene Roylance asks $6,500; Mrs. Margaret McCabe $50,000. Scout Watson was paid $21,500 in an out-of-court settlement; 36 others have also settled out of court, receiving $11,283.25 in amounts ranging from $4 to $2,500.-ED. Lippmann, Keynes & Strachey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1931 | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...Lippmann discover John Maynard Keynes (Economic Consequences of Peace) for America? Wasn't it upon his advice that Harcourt, Brace & Co. published Keynes's book with a resultant sale far above anyone's expectations? And wasn't Mr. Keynes an intimate of Lytton Strachey? And wasn't that why Harcourt Brace got Strachey and his Queen Victoria and thereafter the whole boodle of best selling Strachian biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1931 | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Reader Helden is correct. It was Lippmann to Harcourt, Brace to Keynes to Strachey, the last part of the triple play resulting because Messrs. Keynes & Strachey shared a London flat at the time. Walter Lippmann is "rich" enough to have bought a commodious town house on Manhattan's East 61st St.-ED. Birth Control's Department Sirs: The inclusion, in the March 30 issue, of your article "Protestant Birth Control" under the heading Religion was perhaps necessitated by the lack of a more suitable column. It should be realized, however, that Birth Control, whether moral or immoral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1931 | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Elizabeth The Queen is a sabre-rattling, pompous historical pageant which relates Maxwell Anderson's idea of the love of the Virgin Queen for the Earl of Essex. Author Lytton Strachey's notion to the contrary, Mr. Anderson's Elizabeth (Lynn Fontanne) and Essex (Alfred Lunt) are heroic amorists whose sturdy devotion is thwarted only because they love power more. To indicate her robustness Mrs. Lunt feels called upon to pitch her usually pleasant voice very deep in her throat and to speak her lines as loudly as possible, the effect of which is not unlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 17, 1930 | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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