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...Friends also said that modest Mr. Webb's acceptance of his title was his second sacrifice of the month for the Labor Party. Because his attainments made it a necessity that he be a member of the new MacDonald Cabinet, he relinquished his plan to retire after his 70th birthday, which occurs this month, and became Secretary of State for the Colonies & Dominions. Not having entered the recent election he holds no seat in the House of Commons and had perforce to become a peer because the English Parliamentary system demands that a Cabinet Minister sit in one House...
...Congress in the short session closed last fortnight, reach the sum of $4,633,000,000. Never since the Budget Bureau was set up were its recommendations so far exceeded by appropriations-an excess of some six and a half million dollars. In the previous session of the 70th Congress $4,628,000,000 was appropriated. Total appropriations by the last three Congresses are as follows: 68th Congress (1923-25)-$7,935,000,000 69th Congress (1925-27)-$8,620,000,000 70th Congress...
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...guests trooped in to dinner they found no place card laid for "the Empress Hermine," present consort of Wilhelm II. His 70th birthday was to have been the occasion for the first general recognition of her rank by the entire House of Hohenzollern. Poor Hermine! On the night before she had been stricken with chicken...