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...London soon after the present National Government was returned by the largest Conservative majority in British history, hurried Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich, pious, ultra-Conservative and politely anxious to sell as much as possible of Canada's towering grain surplus. Last week Mr. Bennett ate the last of several quiet meals with Scot MacDonald and Minister of Dominions James Henry Thomas. Then, without a word for publication, reticent Premier Bennett sailed for Canada while his great and blatant friend, Baron Beaverbrook, trumpeted Bennett achievements...
...Author Ade describes an oldtime Kentucky belle: "You could span her waist with your two hands but she couldn't sit down in a tub." He recounts the feat of Tom Heath, who was ejected from an Irish saloon on St. Patrick's Day "because he ate the shamrocks on the bar, thinking they were watercress...
...persistence with which this view is held is a source of wonderment to many economists. They point out that an increase of credit in a quiescent period is not accompanied by a proportion ate rise of prices. Credit and trade seem to advance hand in hand while prices do not go up noticeably until a speculative boom has set in. They point out further that the lowering of the discount rate has had apparently no stimulating effect on business, although it offers a very powerful incentive to borrow. Still, the banks are begging to lend, but nobody wants to borrow...
...Britons recall how his foster father the late Maharaja of Jaipur came to King-Emperor Edward VII's coronation in London "without leaving Jaipur soil." This he smartly did by taking with him a large boxful of the said soil, upon which he squatted in London when he ate his meals, quaffed Jaipur water...
They went down to lunch, Alfonso much put out by the fact that their private dining room was the former billiard room of the hotel with the cue rack still in the corner. They ate wild strawberries and cream...