My Suggestion That The Word " Tram " Was Created
by beheading Mr. Outram, who invented iron tramways in the latter part of the eighteenth century, does not find general favour. It is a legend I was brought up on, and one does......
I Was Looking Forward With Some Interest To The Birmingham
plebiscite on the two proposals, carried by large majorities on the City Council, to provide municipal furniture for tenants of munici- pal houses and to acquire or construct......
How Astonishingly Well They Order Things In Westminster...
memorial service to Lord Baldwin on Wednesday began exactly when it was meant to begin, at 12 noon, and ended exactly when it was meant to end, at 12.3o. It was in some ways......
Waiting For Congress •
T HE hearings on the Marshall Plan now proceeding in Washington have again posed the old problem as to how Europeans should conduct themselves while American Congress- men are......
A Spectator 's. Notebook
C OMMUNIST methods in this country are worth studying. We have lately had the appeal of the Secretary of the Labour Party to trade unionists to wake up and prevent Communists......
Not Many People Could State The Precise Membership Of The
House of Lords. According to a booklet which the Conservative Central Office has just issued on the past and future of the Second Chamber the number is 85o, of whom something......
The Cost Of The Spectator In 1932 Was 6d. A
copy. In that year the paper used was L21-odd a ton ; today it is £55-odd. Com- positors' wages in London in 1932, minimum, £4 9s. a week ; the minimum today is £6 5s. and an......
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