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...rings around Edward VIII (smoke rings, no doubt-or is that...
...sometimes print two on your cover I nominate as Man of the Year Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. We all love President Roosevelt but what other news story held, not only a nation, but the whole world, tense for a week? For five days the needle on the dial of our radio flickered frantically from station to station, all other programs and news items forgotten, searching for news from London...
Next morning Londoners queued up early to gaze at waxed Mrs. Simpson who was placed in the niche occupied previously by George V. Her brilliantly blue glass eyes were fixed on the waxwork of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and at some distance the figure of King Edward VIII also faced Canterbury...
...friends of U. S. nationality. As a rule, in the case of "Americans," he gave audience only to Morgan partners. In the last year of his reign, excepting U. S. diplomats on official missions, George V audienced just two "Americans," Morgan Partner Morgan and Morgan Partner Lamont. King Edward VIII, again excepting U. S. diplomats, accorded audience during his reign to no U. S. citizen- an amazing fact, revealing the grip which permanent Court functionaries maintained over even an extremely pro-American King...
...Council had provided its members with $300,000 worth of broadcasting service. Most popular Council program is the University of Chicago Round Table, in which chatty professors like Philosopher Thomas Vernor Smith and Political Scientist Jerome Kerwin discuss such topics as "The Elections" or "The Abdication of Edward VIII...