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Ornate but dusty chandeliers. Blue walls between stained white Ionic columns. A plaster frieze of dancing nymphs like a Wedgwood plaque. That is October Hall in the House of the Labor Unions in Moscow, and before the Revolution the gay dining room of the Nobles' Club. The world's eyes were on October Hall last week when six British engineers-together with twelve Russian defendants, in which neither Soviet nor world Press took much interest-went on trial for their lives charged with espionage and sabotage (TIME, March 27 et seq.). If these men were found innocent millions...
...rose Col. Josiah C. Wedgwood, Laborite, in the House of Commons last week...
...team of Wedgwood & Churchill was also effective last week in scoring Ramsay MacDonald's tour of Europe in behalf of peace and the Mussolini Four-Power Pact (TIME. March 27). Said Winston Churchill: "We have got our modern Don Quixote home again, with Sancho Panza at his tail, bearing with them these somewhat dubious trophies which they have collected amidst the nervous tittering of Europe...
...Premier MacDonald's very vague speech on the results of his mission Colonel Wedgwood remarked: "It reminded me gentlemen, of Robert Browning's Sordello, a poem which contained only two intelligible lines, the first and the last...
...reproduced from the Nolleken bust. To 1,000,000 schoolrooms he distributed a poster made from the Athenaeum portrait. As unofficial censor of the move to honor Washington, he endorses most of the commercial enterprises submitted to the Commission, suggests a fair price for Washingtonian matchboxes, fountain pen sets, Wedgwood china plates, lampshades, silhouets and plaques. The tire cover notion he rejected as unsuitable. Some of the Commission's own projects he has copyrighted himself, to prevent them from being used for advertising. When asked why his name appears so frequently in all the Commission's correspondence, Congressman Bloom becomes...