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There is a wind all around the world that whispers to politicians what bills will pass, what bills will fail, long before votes are counted. It sighed in the round pink ear of the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill last week, and told him that, despite his burning Tory opposition, the Reform Bill, granting a considerable measure of self government to India, was very close to passage. But all his life the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill has been a fighter. Sprawled on the front row Ministers' Bench last week he suddenly arose and addressed the Speaker...
Came the Day. They stole up behind the Hon. John F. Curry, seized him by the hands and feet, and swung him into the sacrificial fire, with tears of repentance flowing freely...
Last week Vickers, Ltd., one of the greatest armament firms in the world, held its annual meeting in London. General the Hon. Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, chairman of the board, cleared his throat, sipped a glass of water, and read his report...
Rolls-Royce of England, parent of Rolls-Royce of America, Inc., was founded in 1903 by the son of a miller. As a boy, Hon. Charles Stuart Rolls, son of Lord Llangattock, precociously demonstrated his electrical ability by rigging up an apparatus in his mother's bedroom so that the moment she sat in her favorite armchair the room would burst into light. Plump Lady Llangattock sat down so hard she squashed the switch, blew out a fuse. Partner Frederick Henry Royce, struggling against youthful poverty, had no time for pranks. A modest builder of electrical cranes in Manchester...
...Bond issues and old bank loans were coming due and the New York and London capital markets were closed to orthodox financing. Canada has no RFC because Canada has only two railroads (privately-owned Canadian Pacific and government-owned Canadian National*) and only eleven commercial banks. But solemn Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett has broad powers under The Emergency Relief Act. C. P. R.'s request was granted after it had pledged with the Government $100,000,000 face value of senior securities on which inter- est was being earned even last year...