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...Stephen Harkness gave to British charity (TIME, Oct. 6. 1930). This gift caused George V and Queen Mary to receive Mr. and Mrs. Harkness tête-a-tête (TIME, June 22). Last week at a luncheon in the Great Giver's honor Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England...
...Chicago, one Walter Lang was arrested because he stood so long watching a roost of pigeons belonging to a local fancier. He pleaded: "I'm just a hunchback. I never did anything wrong." Turning to show his hump, he dislodged one of the fancier's pigeons concealed under his coat. Walter Lang went to jail for 30 days...
Insolvency, lapping Australia's fiscal shores like a rising tide, washed up two more messes last week amid the flotsam already strewn by repudiating Premier John Thomas Lang of New South Wales (TIME, April...
Mess No. 1: Repudiation by Mr. Lang last week of interest on another set of N. S. W. bonds, this time defaulting interest due in the U. S. as well as Great Britain. As he has done before, Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of all Australia announced that the Commonwealth will make good this default, but Mr. Scullin will raid Australia's gold reserve...
...Dominion Government, alarmed at the prospect, quickly arranged with London to pay $3,500,000 should Premier Lang really default. London bankers announced that ample Dominion funds were already on deposit in London to do this...