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Palace. Dressed in frock coat and top hat, Premier Ramsay Mac Donald called upon King George at Buckingham Palace, conversed with him for a whole hour, departed, and later announced to the House of Commons that the King had granted his request for a dissolution...
Royal Power. When a ministry is defeated, the Prime Minister* must either resign With his Cabinet or request the King to dissolve Parliament. In the first case, he and his ministers deliver up the seals of office-emblems of their authority without which they cannot transact the business of the King's Government. It is usual for the outgoing Premier to advise His Majesty on the choice of a successor...
...these reasons, I desire to request that the National Republican Committee take steps to secure the resignation of Mr. Dawes as Republican candidate for Vice President. In his stead, there should be elected a farm bloc candidate -not an imitation farm bloc-er, but one of the fighting type, like Senator Norris of Nebraska, in whom the farmers have the utmost confidence...
...Bishop Manning did visit St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie last week. A member of the Stuyvesant family (Miss Catharine E.) died; and, at the request of the Stuyvesants and of Dr. Guthrie. Dr. Manning officiated at the funeral...
...opponents of the innovation, a sharp division between "Modernist" and "Fundamentalist" has taken place. The leading voices in the Presbyterian general assembly, upholding the existing order, strove to avoid the threatened cleavage in the church, and did not openly denounce the new tendencies. It saw that a tactful request to Dr. Fosdick to accept the Presbyterian articles of faith, or resign his church, would convey a tacit denunciation of those tendencies he represented. That Dr. Fosdick has answered their ultimatum with resignation is not surprising...