Foreign News: Salesman Sovereign

If there ever was anything pushing and undignified about being a salesman, His Majesty Edward VIII redeemed that calling and gave it lustre by becoming, as Prince of Wales, "the Empire Salesman."

At the British Industries Fair just outside London last week, His Majesty assumed the status of the world's first Salesman Sovereign. His vigorous efforts so to conduct himself as King that he would sell, sell and SELL chanced to benefit chiefly the following British firms which incurred the attention of His Majesty:

M. Munro & Co. manufacture an ingenious "Munrospun Sock"...

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