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Died. Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, 72, famed longtime British Laborite; of a heart attack; in Tilford, Surrey, England. Son of a poor Yorkshire weaver, he passed the civil service examinations at 22 and was sent as a customs official to the Orkney Islands, where a bicycle accident crippled him for life. He went into politics and became first Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924, 1929-31). His hard-headed insistence on rigid economy brought the British Government through the early part of the Depression. Philip Snowden was branded a "traitor" to the working class when he and Ramsay...
...Brewery. Almost as much of a tradition as the boat race itself is its result. Before last week's race, Cambridge had won 13 in a row, lost only one since the War. After a false start, the race started out as usual last week: Cambridge, in the Surrey-side lane, pulled around the first curve with a growing lead...
Shaped like an S, the Thames course gives the shell on the Surrey side the advantage at the start but, to win, it must be at least three lengths ahead at Hammersmith Bridge where the shell on the Middlesex side takes the inner lane until the race is over. When last week, instead of being ahead at Hammersmith, Cambridge was amazingly a few feet behind, spectators on the banks knew how the race must end. For a few lengths, Cambridge's U. S. coxswain, Hunter, and Oxford's Merifield-replacing 56-lb. Hart Massey who was so minute...
...married at Brompton Oratory in London last week, while some 2,000 women scrambled, screamed and fought with police to glimpse the proceedings, England's Premier Duke, Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, Earl of Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk, Baron Fitz Alan, Clun, Oswaldestre and Maltravers, onetime 2nd Lieut. Royal Horse Guards, aged...
British shopkeepers who are privileged to style themselves "purveyors by Appointment to His Majesty the King" clubbed together and presented to the late King George a $250,000 model house in Surrey. The United Press learned this week that King Edward has offered this house, which has never been occupied, to Mrs. Simpson in case she would like to use it as her country place. Dignitaries received by His Majesty last week spread in restricted Mayfair circles an impression that the King, after he is crowned in May 1937, will set out on a tour of the Empire extending clear...