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Questions of financial policy loomed last week as the annual convention of the Radical-Socialist party opened at Nice. Before the convention appeared M. Herriot, Radical standard bearer, to insist that France can balance her budget only by a direct levy on capital. Likewise appeared M. Caillaux, Finance Minister, to plead for the powerful support of the convention, in order that he might be given one more chance to balance his budget by "orthodox" means...
...Wedderburn, who is well above six feet in height, is a native of Scotland. He holds the title of Hereditary Standard Bearer for Scotland, which allows him to carry the Scotch standard at coronation ceremonies. This honor has been held by his ancestors since 1107. His college is Balliol, and he prepared at Winchester. Politically he is a Conservative, the only one of the trio. Cricket is his sport, but he is not a "Blue...
...Democratic Senator who will seek reelection in 1926. Mr. Dawes spoke in praise of Senate rule which would permit a majority to close debate. Then, turning benignantly to Mr. Oscar W. Underwood: "The leading proponent of this great reform is Senator Underwood, who has been for years a standard-bearer in a courageous fight for the reform of the Senate rules on the floor of the Senate itself...
...practiced in his own consolidating activities. A captain of industry, still he stuck to the sea, which had been gracious to him; he built, captained, the Grade, the "swiftest steam yacht that ever split the salt." He has been the confidant of Tilden, the associate of Elaine, the purse-bearer of the Rothschilds, the sponsor of a South American Republic (Chile...
...sane and brilliant, while Mr. Menckan seems often to harp on the same rather frayed and always twanging string. Shy, slightly satirical in conversation, remote and difficult to know, Mr. Sherman possesses undoubted charm-but it is the charm of a wielder of intellectual hammerblows, the sly bearer of devastating epigrams and of violent discussions. Here are the two most interesting personalities in American criticism- opposed to each other, both prejudiced and both, apparently, escaping from themselves, in public utterances absolutely giving the He to the faces which they have built around themselves, with which to greet their fellow...