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...money to strengthen Britain's Army & Navy. After much deliberation it was refused. Later she changed this offer, to give the same amount of money for a special air defense for London. Refused a second time, persistent Lady Houston renewed the offer. Last week, still ignored, she withdrew...
...mere abridgment but a complete condensed revision, Graves's David Copperfield may well be come the text posterity knows best. So loudly indignant were ruffled British criics, however, that Publishers Harcourt, Brace blew hot & cold about bringing out a U. S. edition. They scheduled one for last week, withdrew it, finally compromised on publishing a school textbook of Graves's version, further edited by one Merrill P. Paine, Elizabeth, N. J. school teacher. Readers who took the trouble to compare The Real David Copperfield with Dickens' original found Graves's version an actual improvement. Even after...
...First Commissioner of Works. In so doing he violated the British taboo that Cabinet discussions are sacred. Edgar had consulted neither the King nor the Prime Minister. George V did not much care. But Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald cared very much. The Government banned My Father and the publishers withdrew it to cut out the Cabinet memoranda. Omitted from the new edition was the inside story of Lansbury's fight in the early days of Depression to force the Labor Cabinet to stand by the Party's "Socialist pledges in behalf of the workers." Lined up against...
Divorced. Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, 43, toothy Los Angeles evangelist; by David L. ("Iron Man") Hutton, 32, adipose choir & vaudeville singer, her third husband; in Los Angeles, day after Mrs. Hutton withdrew her cross-suit. Grounds: cruelty (lack of confidence, public discussion of marital intimacies...
...Anti-Long group, led by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. '36, that has been carrying on a fight to oust Huey Long from the United States Senate, withdrew from the sponsorship of the Liberal Club last night...