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John Rushworth Jellicoe, 70, Earl Jellicoe, Viscount Brocas of Southampton, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, commander of the British Grand Fleet (1914-16), later first sea lord, Admiral of the Fleet and governor-general of New Zealand (1920-24), demanded to know why the thousands of British workers who sit idle receiving the unemployment dole should not be made to work for this money building battleships. "Treaties do not of themselves always give security and safety," he cried. "In the view of one who has been responsible for Great Britain's security in critical days, that security is gone...
David Beatty, 59, Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, son-in-law of the late Chicago drygoods tycoon Marshall Field Sr., commander of the 1st battle cruiser squadron in the Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), Lord Rector of Edinburgh University (1917), said: "We are about to commit the great appalling blunder of signing away the sea power by which the British Empire came into being and is maintained today. . . . The most enlightened sea officers with whom I talked have condemned the Treaty absolutely as one which will render...
...London, the Earl of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain and official drama censor, politely, regretfully announced that The Green Pastures, Pulitzer-prize-winning Negro folk-play by Marc Connelly (TIME, March 10), might not be produced in London. Reason: since God is impersonated on stage, the play is sacrilegious. Playwright Connelly's comment: "I am mildly surprised to find the Lord Chamberlain's office unable to distinguish the difference between orthodox sacrilege and a simple miracle play...
...Laverne Fator, No. 2 U. S. jockey, up on Patroness: a duel with Earl Sande, No. 1 U. S. jockey, on Flying Gal, in the Hanover handicap at Aqueduct, N. Y., by a half-length...
...Empire. Control of this company was shared by the Volpi-formed Compagnie Italo Belge pour Enterprises d'Electricité et d'Utilité Publique, commonly known as Cibe, and by Dawnay, Day & Co., Ltd., London merchant bankers. Count Volpi is chairman; Lord Barnby of Lloyds and the Earl of Westmoreland are among the great British names on the directorate...