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...Churchill well knows that-Sire Churchill, ever ambitious, broke last month with Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin on the issue of India's future status, resigned from the Conservative "shadow cabinet" on Jan. 27, 1931. He has since continued (with no appearance of success) his attempts (by loud public speechmaking) to get a wagging hold on the Conservative party through its die-hard tail, of which...
...pages in Chicago but is conservative to the point of impotence in local controversies. Last week bald, tight-lipped John Charles Shaffer, 77, publisher of the Post for 30 years and of the Indiana Star group, let the Post go into receivership, apparently to become a mouthpiece for loud-yawping Mayor William Hale Thompson. The Post had lost money consistently, recently as much as $75,000 a year. Receivers were George Fulmer Getz, millionaire coal dealer, and his partner Charles Fitzmorris, onetime police chief, onetime secretary to Mayor Thompson...
...Angeles Enrico Caruso Jr., 26, loud, barrel-chested son of the late great tenor, is taking singing lessons. His instructor: Adolfo de la Huerta, onetime Provisional President of Mexico. Said Junior Caruso: "I never believed I could reflect credit on [my father's] memory. But I feel now that I can. . . . Dad told me: 'The cemeteries are full of tenors who tried to sing Othello.' I want to sing that one best of all. . . . That would make Dad proud...
...Loud was the clamor in London last week over Prime Minister MacDonald's announcement that Great Britain would not defend the Schneider Trophy this year (TIME, Jan. 26). From the Conservative and Liberal benches were fired barrages of questions, demands to know why such a decision was made at this time, after Italy & France had been drawn into the contest on Britain's own exacting terms, and when a British victory would be a third successive one, bringing permanent ownership of the trophy. Scot MacDonald professed himself "personally ... as keen about this contest as any man living...
...refrigerator affiliate, Majestic Household Utilities. A $4,000,000 patent suit was lost to Magnavox Corp. of San Francisco. The company resigned from Radio Manufacturers' Association, lined itself against Radio Corp. of America. For these and many other things, the company's bankers blamed loud Mr. Grunow. Last week the company's directors proposed a big personnel change. "If they go, I go too," said Mr. Grunow. Mr. Grigsby's poker-face did not change. A vote was taken, the press was then informed that Mr. Grunow was "relieved"' of the company's presidency...