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...great London fires for the past ten years, Londoners have seen inside the fire lines a tall, hearty figure in the black helmet and blue uniform of the Salvage Corps. He was Captain Brymore Eric Miles, chief of the insurance companies' special force to keep down unnecessary damage by fire & water. On his hefty chest glittered a row of medals, including the Military Cross and the Stars of Mons...
Swooping down, the seaplane landed just at the mouth of Rome's river, muddy Father Tiber. A motorcar whisked Sir John to the British Embassy. There he found the strongest foe in Rome to any change in the League, patient, sandy-mustached Sir Eric Drummond, now British Ambassador but for 14 years Secretary General of the League. Talks between II Duce and Sir John quickly crystallized around the issue of Disarmament. In Berlin the French Ambassador, bristling M. André François-Poncet who has personal connections with the French munitions firm of Schneider & Cie., had just delivered...
...should consider when buying something for father, or a favorite professor, and we might include also, just any ordinary man. We are talking about The Edwardian Era, by Andre Maurois (Appleton-Century, $3.00): Charles the First, by Hillaire Belloc (J. B. Lippincott, $4.00): Mary Queen of Scots, by Eric Linklater (Appleton-Century, $1.50); and An American Colossus, by Ralph Edward Bailey (Lathrop, Lee & Shepard, $3.00). In these four presentations we find a bit of history in the making told through the lives of four of the greats. Mr. Maurois is particularly witty in his new biography, one of the best...
Jack McLean of Hayston: the Open Amateur Golf Championship of Ireland for the second time in a row; 3 & 2, in the 36-hole final against Eric Fiddian of Troon, who amazed the gallery by making two holes in one; at Newcastle, County Down...
...broken. From Karachi to Singapore a line will be operated jointly by Imperial and an Indian company. Meanwhile in Australia bids have been called for an Australia-Singapore service. Only Australian companies are eligible to bid; but one of the bidders has for its chairman and managing director Sir Eric Geddes and G. Woods Humphery. respectively chairman and manager of Imperial...