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...Captain William Wedgwood Benn (Liberal), supported by ex-Premier George and Barrister Sir John Simon (Liberal), moved a vote of censure on the Speaker (John H. Whitley)* for permitting closure of debate during the second reading of the finance bill (see paragraph 2 above), on the first day, thereby depriving the Liberals of effective reply to the measures and the protection that is due to minorities in the House. A vote of censure on the Speaker is an unusual occurrence and the Liberals made it clear that in no way was the character of the Speaker involved. Conservative and Laborites...
WEBSTER'S POKER BOOK-H. T. Webster, George Ade, G. F. Worts, Marc Connelly, R. F. Foster-Simon, Schuster ($2.50). Cartoonist Webster long ago laid hold on the ventricles of the U. S. public. Even his illustrated bridge pads are said to get laughs from Long Island to Los Angeles. Now, through the Barnum-and-Baileys of the publishing business, he presents a whole book about his cigar-chewing, telephoning, lying, bluffing, smirking, grinning fiction, the Great American Poker Player, trigged out with dialog and dialects by the satisfying Messrs. Ade and Connelly. Mr. Foster, aspirant to the shoes...
...Percival Bailey, S.B., Ph.D., M.D., Instructor in Surgery at the University Medical School and a physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital has been awarded one of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships for the year 1925-26 it was announced by the trustees of the foundation last night...
...John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was recently organized by former U. S. Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim of New York City as a memorial to a son who died April 26, 1922. It has an endowment, received from Senator Guggenheim, of $3,000,000. The fellowships awarded by the Foundation provide stipends usually of $2500 a year...
Such was the millennialistic idea put forward, last week, by Dr. Carleton Simon, Special Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City. It struck Special Deputy Police Commissioner Herman A. Metz as such a good idea that he promptly offered a prize of $100,000 for discovery of the synthetic formula...