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...horses, all the King's men and even to all the King's airplanes is Lady Houston. Without her sudden, impulsive gift of $485,000 (par) last year the British Air Ministry could not have entered and won the final Schneider Trophy Races (TIME, Sept. 14, 1931, et seq.). Last week Dame ("Fanny") Lucy was at it again. She astounded Chancellor of the Exchequer Arthur Neville Chamberlain by offering a gift of $756,000 "to keep the flag flying and help the Army, Navy and Air Force in their dire need and necessity...
...Commonwealth Government of Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons, weary of paying New South Wales's repudiated debts (TIME, April 6, 1930, et seq.) continued its efforts to impound New South Wales funds. Mr. Lyons issued a proclamation attaching betting tax receipts at race courses, entertainment taxes at theatres, and the receipts of state-owned railways in New South Wales. State Premier Lang swiftly countered by ordering that all railway receipts must not be handled by banks, but sent direct to Sydney under armed guard. During the night his agents changed all the locks on all the doors...
...among the Big Seven is "the American Bank of Poland," founded by Swedish Ivar Kreuger, suicided Match King, unmasked cheat (TIME, March 21 et seq.). Last week the Kreuger bank announced that only 60% of its depositors have withdrawn their accounts as a result of the Kreuger scandal. It had discharged only 50% of its staff and remained serenely open for further business...
Eighteen months ago, after hundreds of drinks of the radium tonic, he began having pains in his jaw, severe headaches. Dr. Joseph Manning Steiner, Manhattan x-ray specialist who had seen several of the young women poisoned in U.S. Radium Corp.'s factory (TIME, June 4, 1928 et seq.'), recognized in Byers' condition symptoms of radium poisoning...
...minority (16.9%) without political power, save for the advisory powers conferred on the Jewish Agency by the mandate, allotted to Great Britain ten years ago. Chief set-back of the decade: the British Government's policy, published in Lord Passfield's White Paper (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930 et seq.) which proposed restriction of Jewish immigration and land purchase. No Zionist oration is complete without references?in lamentation or scorn?to the White Paper...