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...Cook declared that Premier Baldwin had "betrayed" the miners; and that in retaliation the miners would refuse to testify before the royal commission now investigating the coal situation, and would hold a special meeting on Oct. 9 "to consider the situation." Premier Baldwin sat tight. By some his action in backing the operators was considered "solidly determined," by other "inadept...
Modern dances were barred. The program consisted of Strathspeys, Circassian Circles, Spanish Gavotte, the Reel of Tulloch, eightsomes and waltzes. The Queen missed scarcely a dance, personally selected several waltz tunes,* and trod a few measures with the royal piper...
...there was a casualty. Prince Henry, third son of the royal house, galloping at the head of his company of Mercian Hussars fetlock deep in mud, dawn a country road, was caught in the open by advancing Wessex tanks, spitting death from their three-pound guns. He dismounted and stood grinning by the roadside in his steel helmet, crying: "I guess we're out of action!" even before the umpires wrote him down as "killed in the field of battle...
...Professor .William Levi Carlyle. An agricultural scientist, he is trying to persuade the Western Progressives of Alberta to send at least one Conservative to Ottawa. His chances of succeeding are reported to be excellent because of the somewhat irrelevant fact that he is manager of the ranch of Royal Highness, Edward of Wales...
Forthwith H. R. H.'s secretary wrote to Socialist-Editor Tom Johnson (Labor M. P.): "Professor Carlyle's views are his own and in no way reflect those of His Royal Highness, who stands aloof from party politics...