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...Whitley Sept.12 Rhyne, Ga. Shot...
Married. The Right Hon. John Henry Whitley, 62, onetime (1921-28) Speaker of the British House of Commons who last month, retiring from the House, refused a peerage (TIME, July 9); and Helen Clarke, social worker; in London...
...Parliamentary seat vacated when Liberal Rt. Hon. John Henry Whitley retired as Speaker of the House of Commons (TIME, July 2) was sensationally and significantly captured, last week, by Alderman Longbottom of Halifax, England, a Laborite...
Beloved Speaker Whitley had been returned to Parliament from Halifax for 28 consecutive years, in 1918 received 22,136 votes to his Laborite opponent's 4,036 and was elected unopposed in 1924. But obscure Alderman Longbottom polled 17)536 victorious Labor votes...
...shrewd was a dig taken at Right Honorable Members by Speaker Whitley in his last address to the House of Commons: "The duties of the Chair do not become lighter as the years pass on. With each new Parliament there are more members who wish to take an active part in the proceedings by question or in debate, and a Speaker often carries to his pillow an acute sense of loss for the speeches that were undelivered?speeches no doubt much better than those to which he has listened. [Laughter, cheers...