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"Execution." Mr. David Lloyd George was chosen by all the opposition parties to lead the attack upon Conservative Goliath Baldwin's Government. With well pondered malice, the fiery David twirled his verbal sling and loosed a stinging pebble: a resolution to reduce Sir Austen's salary. Quoth slinger...
In Shepton Mallet jail, Somerset, England, a hangman's noose tightened, last week, and snapped out the life of John Lincoln, a British soldier, who last Christmas Eve murdered a certain traveling salesman whose house he was attempting to rob. Some 50,000 English humanitarians signed a petition that the...
From then on the Earl of Reading, Viceroy of India, formerly Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-1921), was admittedly in a most awkward position with respect to the Maharaja of Indore. The British forced the execution of three of the Indians who were implicated and the banishment of four...
The chief prize (gold medal) was given "for distinguished personal service in advertising" to Ernest Elmo Calkins, President of Calkins & Holden, Manhattan agency. Originally a printer, Mr. Calkins studied art because he knew that good typography must follow the principles of design. In 1902 he went into partnership with Ralph...
For the best planning and execution of a national campaign, $2,000 and a certificate went to the Philadelphia agency of Young & Rubicam and the Postum Cereal Co.