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Died. Crowell Hadden, 89, board chairman of Brooklyn Savings Bank, father of President Howard Hadden of Dorland Advertising Agency (Manhattan), grandfather of the late Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME; after a three-week illness, in Brooklyn...
Twice in three weeks has the hoary House of Commons been publicly outraged. No sooner had horrified Briton's gooseflesh subsided over Laborite John Beckett's "Rape of the Mace" (TIME, July 28) than the nation shuddered again. One Elijah Sandham, Liverpool Laborite, stood up in the House and said...
Empire Free Trade. One Briton who rejoiced secretly at the Canadian victory of Conservative Bennett was Conservative Stanley Baldwin. He has been fighting tooth & nail to keep control of his party from the British "Press Lords" Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere with their pet policy of Empire free trade (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq). Stanley Baldwin, personally a free trader, was grudgingly forced to accept Empire free trade when popular opinion seemed to demand it. Australia's mountainous tariff and absolute embargoes, conservative Canada's high tariff policy, gave Stanley Baldwin one more chance to declare his independence...
...amid cries of "Order! Order!" When he would not come to order the Speaker "named" him. Mr. MacDonald moved his suspension and the House proceeded to vote it by strolling off into the division lobbies. It was then that a supreme rupture of precedent occurred, electrifying and dumfounding every Briton present...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens Hadden, 85, wife of Board Chairman Crowell Hadden of Brooklyn Savings Bank, grandmother of the late Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME; of a heart attack; at the Manhattan home of her son, President Howard S. Hadden of Dorland Agency, Inc. (advertising...