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...Lloyd George might just as well have said, ". . . as if I were Mrs. Elizabeth Tarratt." Mrs. Tarratt is Chancellor Snowden's 85-year-old next door neighbor in Surrey. When aged Mrs. Tarratt built a fence on property adjoining Mr. Snowden's Eden Lodge, the wizened Chancellor promptly had it chopped down, declared it was on public land. Mrs. Tarratt went to the rural council, received a writ declaring that the land was not public but her very own. Last week she ordered a new, indestructible wire fence erected, dared Mr. Snowden to lay a finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parity in Tariffs! | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...Bell prize, awarded for theses of merit in the field of American literature, was won by William E. Wilson 1G, of Evansville, Indiana. The John Osborne Sargent prize, for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace, was won by Roland Marandin Minns '31, Davison scholar of Surrey, England. The selection for 1929-1930 was the fifth ode of the third book of Horace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BATES AND COUDERT ARE GIVEN BOWDOIN PRIZES | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...There were swarming crowds milling decorously on the Surrey side near Putney Bridge as the crews took to the water, but they were quiet crowds, undulating gently at the slightest gesture of the bobbies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/15/1930 | See Source »

Died. Arthur James Balfour, Si, first Earl of Balfour, Viscount Traprain of Whittingehame, famed British statesman; at Woking, Surrey; after a long illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 31, 1930 | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...Surrey, England, T. F. Halliburton willed that his ashes be scattered under the beech tree which had often spoiled his golf score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Perfect | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

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