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...Prince's plane landed virtually on his own lawn, at Windsor Great Park. His pet Cairn terrier, Cora, barked a joyous welcome. His brothers, the Duke of York and Prince George, greeted him, whisked him away to Fort Belvedere where his parents waited...
...attacking Mr. King's pet policy last week other Conservative speakers who followed Mr. Guthrie scathingly asked whether the Canadian Legation in Washington (maintained at an annual cost of $100,000) is being used to protest the U. S. tariff. " One thing we do know!" roared Conservative Thomas Kaiser. "We have never had so many troubles with them [the U. S.] over liquor as since we established our Legation...
While Francis Scott McBride, chief Anti-Saloon League lobbyist, was declaring that Mr. Drury's testimony was "a knock-out blow to the Wets' pet scheme," Wets talked of inviting Premier Ferguson to Washington to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to refute the statements of his Canadian opponent. Premier Ferguson promptly scotched this proposal as "undesirable," but offered to send all data necessary to prove the success of Ontario's liquor system...
President Hoover could be impeached, but short of that neither law nor custom could force him to resign, even if all his pet projects were defeated in Congress a thousand times. Last week in Dublin, however, an adverse majority of only two votes in the Dail Eireanu forced "President Liam T. MacCosgair (William T. Cosgrave) to hand his resignation to the Governor General of the Irish Free State, His Excellency James McNeill, appointed by King George...
Amused and stimulated were Columbia's pedagogs last week when their visitor, in his three lectures, took gentle but firm issue with the Columbian idea of mass education and the pet theory of their colleague, Professor Thomas Henry Briggs, head of the department of Secondary Education. Professor Briggs vehemently believes that all schools should be state-supplied, "democratic," that today's private schools are unsatisfactory. Sir Michael prefaced his remarks by soothing any Columbian feathers that might become ruffled later. Said he: ''Teachers College is by far the greatest center for the study of educational method...