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Below on the oblong floor of the House, which is a great Gothic box, crisp English primroses bloomed in the buttonholes of scores of M. P.s, for Budget Day had happened to fall on "Primrose Day."** On the Government front bench sat snowy-crested Scot MacDonald between the Empire's two biggest bumblers, Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions. Exactly at 3:30 p. m. Chancellor Chamberlain rose, ruffled his notes, took a stiff stance beside the red leather despatch box and, before he began to make...
...week's time the panoply and pagentry that is Boston society will be called out. The papers will run unpleasant half tones of men in tall, shining hats, and women with long, jade earrings. Neat, oblong programs will announce affluent, philanthropic patrons of the arts. New dresses will be bought and new coiffures will be arranged. There will be a gentle, dignified stir on Huntington Avenue. Pierce Arrows will roll up to the kerb and the street lights will fail on ermine and on velvet. The Opera a short week hence will be in town...
...Hoover's proposed debt holiday (see p. 16). Undersecretary Mills was the President's statistical expert in whose head were all the facts and figures needed to deal with France. Two, three, sometimes four times a day President Hoover would summon him for conferences from his great oblong office on the second floor of the Treasury overlooking statues of Alexander Hamilton and William Tecumseh Sherman, with the Potomac beyond. So preoccupied was the Treasury's Undersecretary with the debt negotiations that he cancelled his usual Friday-to-Monday holiday at his summer home in Westbury, L. I. Miss Beatrice Todd...
...Cheer for Briand but Vote for Doumer." The Salle du Congrés, where Chamber and Senate met last week as the National Assembly, is shaped like an oblong box, the rostrum being at the centre of one of the longer sides. Behind the rostrum is a stately backdrop for the show, a wall against which brown columns stand like sentinels with ornate Corinthian caps. Around the other three sides of the room galleries rise tier on tier. A magnet for every eye is the great green-&-gold Voting Urn. As everyone knows, Aristide Briand, twelve times Prime Minister...
Stroking his jowls with a quiet gesture of satisfaction, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning made his way out of the oblong chamber of the Reichstag one day last week, strode back to his office through a swarm of Deputies and lobbyists who proffered congratulations...