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...David Lloyd George. Next they started a great national campaign for "Empire Free Trade" (TIME, Dec. 2, et seq.). Contributions to their campaign fund were handled by Treasurer Beaverbrook. Suddenly he vvithdrew from the "United Empire Party " returned all contributions to contributors (thus leaving Viscount Rotnermere holding an empty bag) and joined with Stanley Baldwin on the basis that "food taxes," a major feature of the Empire Free Trade" scheme, would be submitted to popular referendum by the Conservatives if returned to power (TIME, March 17). Tiring soon of slow Sheep Dog Baldwin, mercurial Baron Beaverbrook has recently resumed alliance...
...husbands often consented to attend his parties. But they recognized that times have changed, that the new Edward is discretion itself in applying his married-woman rule. For example, whenever he visits the smart French resort of Le Touquet, H. R. H. eschews the pretty, unmarried caddiettes. has his bag of sticks carried by plain, almost homely Mme Adolphine Lamour...
...plan," the report was split into two sections: 1) "History" and 2) "Recommendations" of which only the former was issued last week. Although a "best seller" and Conservative to the core, it drew from the arch-Conservative Morning. Post a comment which rather let the cat out of the bag: "This survey is so carefully balanced and so judicially vague that it is difficult to see to what it leads...
...Clermont-Ferrand, France, a fox terrier dragged a brown paper bag to a policeman's feet. Stooping to pat the dog, the policeman looked into the bag, found a newborn baby...
Diplomatic custom requires that one must go away before one can be received back with due ceremony. Therefore Minister Olaya, unattended, went to the Union Station, handed his bag to a redcap, boarded an ordinary Pullman to New York where he went into seclusion. A few days later the U. S. rode him back to Washington in a special train. At the Union Station top-hatted officials from the State Department lined up to greet him. Military and naval units snapped to salute. The Marine Band groped its way through the Colombian national anthem (El Himno National). Guns fired...