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...esteemed George V, was 44 when his father, Edward VII, died, and Edward was 59 when Victoria withered away.) Most of the blood in his veins was the German blood of the Hanovers, mixed with the English Tudors and Scotch Stuarts. His house had owned the English name of Windsor only 19 years. But on Dec. 10, 1936, when he stuttered a little and took up the burden of his brother, the slow mutation of the British way had made him as British as a cockney...
...laborer, in 1915 evolved the Bedaux System which purported to reward workers amply in proportion to work done, but which was widely denounced as exploitation. Rich from his Plan, Bedaux bought a 14th-century French chateau where his friend the Duke of Windsor married Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. On that occasion Bedaux openly admitted: "I am an out-&-out Fascist." In 1937 he planned a U.S. tour for the Duke and Duchess, was stymied by labor leaders' "Baltimore Resolution." In North Africa since 1942, ostensibly to build a trans-Sahara pipeline for edible oil, Bedaux was nabbed there recently...
...slate-blue of the Royal Canadian Air Force rose from his bench in the House of Commons, some members did not recognize him. The honorable member for Vancouver North had been excused from the last three sessions because of a more pressing assignment: administrative duty with the City of Windsor Spitfire squadron, which fought in Egypt, Libya, Malta and is now in Italy. He was Flight Lieut. James Sinclair, 35, onetime Rhodes scholar, home on leave...
...made this radio announcement are certain that Barnum was not wrong. They are Joe Gentile and Ralph Binge (TIME, March 22), also perpetrators of The Early Morning Frolic (Mutual's Detroit-Windsor Station CKLW), one of the most impudent shows on the U.S. air. They were only trying to be funny, but some 100 listeners were in no mood for joking. They wrote in asking for the remedy. There...
...monarch is a sort of father. . . ." The Duke & Duchess of Windsor were back in the Bahamas, their visit to the Duchess' Aunt Bessie Merryman in Boston having extended itself into the couple's longest U.S. stay-two months, mostly in Manhattan...