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...Society stated, inter alia, "Oh well, let the applicant have its way. We have no desire to engage in acrimonious debate. . . . We laugh in scorn at the suggestion that we do not even exist. Twenty-thousand strong we laugh-Ha Ha! (ironic laughter). We have our traditions to uphold. A George never engages in acrimonious debate-well, hardly ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Duquesne, celebrated for its victory over Pitt, picked to uphold the North against Mississippi State, did so in Miami's Orange Bowl by the margin of Boyd Brumbaugh's place kick after his own touchdown in the second period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bowls | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...having been what first put the clergy onto Edward VIII, long before they heard of Mrs. Simpson. On Monday there were cheers for His Majesty among brokers on the Stock Exchange. The King sent to have read for him in Parliament an address in which he specifically promised "to uphold the honor of the realm." Her Majesty could not go to church and has been staying indoors with "influenza" for some time. Happy rumors rippled in London that Queen Elizabeth may have something better than influenza. His Majesty was always officially Albert (familiarly "Bertie") up to last week but Baldwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: George VI | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Prince Edward was scrupulous not to betray his class, and to do and say all he could to uphold the Kingdom and the Empire, giving no opportunity to irresponsible groups of the masses to harm Britain. Long after His Majesty's instrument of abdication was signed, sealed, published and in course of certain enactment by Parliament (see p. 17) one of the greatest mass gatherings in British history was still roaring outside of Buckingham Palace, "WE WANT EDWARD!" He was not there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prince Edward | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Since matronly Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands and her massive daughter Crown Princess Juliana still uphold standards once upheld in England by King George, deep was the resentment of Dutchmen last week as some British journals printed sour-grape stories striving to make it appear that Juliana is some what the same kind of person as Edward VIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Sour Grapes | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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