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President of the Channel Tunnel Co. Ltd. is Baron Emile Beaumont d'Erlanger, potent internationalist, chairman of the great Anglo-French banking firm of Erlangers, Ltd., naturalized Briton. Enthusiastic fellow supporters include H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S.-born London department store tycoon, and Sir William Bull, senior partner of Bull and Bull, eloquent solicitors. They were pleased but cautious at last week's report. Beside the obvious opposition of cross-Channel steamship companies, other timorous Tories like Lord Ebbisham, the Channel tunnel must still be approved by the Committee of Imperial Defense...
...pirated editions in the U. S. and England were book-legged to collectors of erotica. Authorities almost unanimously adjudged it obscene, pornographic. It was the story of an illicit love affair between an English lady and the gamekeeper on her husband's estate: all details were given, all Anglo-Saxon unprintable words were printed. Author Lawrence defended his book, attacked the literary pirates who had stolen it, in a preface (published separately last year in the U. S. by Random House), My Skirmish with Jolly Roger. Now he pursues the subject further, in a booklet called Pornography and Obscenity...
Fulmer Mood '21, Instructor in History and Literature, for his investigation of the early history of Anglo-American literature from...
...they went Mr. Hoover's decisions were a praiseworthy echo of U. S. public opinion; but they did not change the fact that, if France does not recede from her demand, Britain will increase hers, the U. S. must increase theirs to maintain Anglo-U. S. "parity," and the net result would be to launch the London Conference on a program of increasing naval strengths all round...
...Guernsey gaffers believe that the cry "Haro!" is an abbreviation of "Ha, Rollo!" an appeal to Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. More probably it comes from Anglo-Saxon licra or hara, an exclamation intended to attract attention. At Irish county fairs hucksters still shout "Aral Aral" when displaying their wares...