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...issue on which the Cabinet was defeated last week was an amendment to the school attendance bill. Twenty-six Laborites bolted their party to vote for it. With this gaping split in his ranks Scot MacDonald is clinging by his fingertips to the crackling rim of Doom...
...home, finally, with the knowledge that you and we agree unanimously on two points: 1) India must be organized for the first time as a federation of all her components; 2) the Province of Burma must be split off from India and separately governed under the Crown...
...Smith prepares his articles in his office at No. 200 Madison Ave. from press clippings and other data compiled by researchers. He dictates his "stuff" rapidly, cigar in mouth, as he paces the floor. Variety reported that Mr. Smith is guaranteed $500 per week against a 60-40 split of the gross income of the feature, with a present assurance of $1,050 per week on the basis of the present list of customers. But at both McNaught syndicate and Mr. Smith's office it was stated that no such information had ever been given...
...Split already on Prohibition, the Republican regulars last week had real cause to wonder what they would do if the Insurgents should decline to vote with them in organizing the next Congress, where the Republican majorities are paper-thin already. Worse, what if those thin majorities and this widening breach were replicas of what happened in the years 1910 and 1912? Then the G. O. P. lost Congress, split at its presidential nominating convention, allowed the Presidency to fall between the stools of Taft and Roosevelt into the lap of Woodrow Wilson. To professionally political Insurgents, thought of a third...
...Bratianus hated & feared Wall Street, despised King Carol whom he once called "weak and sly to the point of periodic in sanity." Professor George Bratianu (son of Ion) was not long ago induced by sly King Carol to leave his chair at the University of Jassy, enter politics and split the Liberal (Bratianu) Party by siding with His Majesty against Uncle Vintila. On the Rumanian scene today there remains secure (if not supreme) the master intrigant His Grey Eminence General Alexandre Averescu. Seemingly no freak of fortune, no blow of fate can dislodge him from his niche of power...