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...misleading stock prospectus, had begun last November, was shortened for good behavior. The towering baron?he is 6 ft. 7 in. long but last week looked bowed and broken? was met by Lady Kylsant who escorted him by motor first to their May fair home, thence to their Welsh estate at Coomb Llangain, Carmarthen, where loyal villagers had erected a laurel arch. Some 40 villagers hooked ropes to His Lord-ship's limousine, towed it at a run through the arch, up the drive to the Kylsant mansion. Lord Kylsant wept...
Presbyterian & Publisher. Born into a family of gentlefolk 47 years ago at Marion, Ohio, Mr. Thomas started life as an orthodox Republican. He voted for Taft in 1908. His father was a Presbyterian minister, as was his Welsh-born grandfather before him. In Marion as a boy he used to deliver copies of the Star. Its publisher, Warren Gamaliel Harding, had a hearty way of slapping him on the back and calling him ''Norm." Years later "Norm" Thomas was thoroughly shocked when his old employer actually got into the White House...
Welshmen were full of praise last week for William George, brother of David Lloyd George.* Flaying the British Broadcasting Corp. as a "language dumper, William George hotly declared, Like an eternal distillery it is distilling English, English English all the time. We demand broadcasts in Welsh!" Though fluent in Welsh David Lloyd George sorely vexes his brother William George by broadcasting exclusively in English...
Last week the flower of Georgian England watched George & Mary unveil Queen Alexandra, congratulate Edwardian Sculptor Gilbert. Watching were Edward, Prince of Wales who had put on his Welsh Guards uniform, the Duke of Gloucester as a hussar, the Duke of York and Prince George as naval officers, Premier Ramsay MacDonald, the Duke of Portland. Next day King George knighted Sculptor Gilbert who had outwaited the world...
Almost three times taller than her uncle Edward of Wales is six-year-old Princess Elizabeth's Bwthyn Bach to Gwellt or "Little Cottage with the Straw Roof " Built at a cost of $10,000 to advertise the products of 100 Welsh firms, the cottage drew Welsh crowds at Cardiff's Ideal Home & Building Exhibition last autumn. Insured for $6,250, it caught fire while traveling on a truck toward London, has been reconstructed and now contain: the original furniture which was on a second truck. Not until Princess Betty is nearly double her present age will...