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...Mean Get-out." In England, white-maned David Lloyd George, 73, the little Welsh lion who galvanized and led the British in 1916-18, has appointed himself a scourge to the Chamberlain Government on the subject of Food. His model farm at Churt, Surrey is but part of his credentials as Food expert: he revealed last week that he faced (and averted) a moment in 1917 "when we were within three weeks of having no bread in the country." Last week, speaking at a luncheon in London's swank Dorchester Hotel, he cried: "I have one message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRAND STRATEGY: Half-Year Mark | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Died. Music Hall Comedian Harry Tate (real name: Ronald Macdonald Hutchison), 67, Britain's W. C. Fields; of heart trouble, after being struck in the head by anti-aircraft shell splinters; in Surrey, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Reginald ("Red") Rowland, 53-Year-old British cinema manager who claims to be the author of the dirty war ditty Mademoiselle from Armentieres (pronounced-for the purposes of the song-"armentaire"), told a newsreporter at his home in Sutton, Surrey, England: "I am trying to do a piece for the lads in this war. You know, though, they say it's only once in a lifetime that you do a masterpiece. But that wasn't a masterpiece, of course. The fact is, it was the utterest tripe, old boy, the utterest tripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

After taking a pack at the Harvard undergraduate's "inimitable balance", the Chicago muckraker crisis's the unplanned curriculum here, which, like To pay, just grew." He deeply regress that Harvard has no nifty surrey court and educational integrated like Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Is Severely Criticized by Article in U. of Chicago Publication | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

...Cyril Gerard Holland, vicar of Ewell, Surrey, deplored such chauvinist talk. Said he: "Let us at least leave God as a neutral." In John Bull, Rev. William McCormick, popularly known as "Pat" McCormick, of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, hazarded that "God must hate it all ... the evil behind this use of force, the misery and suffering. . . . His is the hardest part. He's in the midst of all the suffering because . . . Germans and Allies alike . . . we're all his children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God This, God That | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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