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Clayton's gripe about the tariff, to wit: The tariff raises Southern cotton production costs above world costs; hampers cotton exports by impeding industrial imports...
...Irish wit could have produced nothing more grossly absurd, for there was no evidence that His Majesty has anything so foolhardy in mind as trying to put the two irate parts of Ireland together. In Dublin recently a Catholic alderman warned the Lord Mayor that he will probably be manhandled if he attends His Majesty's Coronation. Last week President de Valera formally announced that that piece of pageantry will be boycotted by his Free State which by no means has King Edward in a baby carriage...
Famed for biting wit since he went to Washington as one of Oklahoma's first two Senators in 1907, "Tom" Gore once remarked in the course of a debate on inflation: ''If cheap money is what the country needs, why don't we repeal the laws against counterfeiting?" Last week the white-thatched old statesman acknowledged defeat thus: ''The law of evolution is adapt or die, and I didn't adapt...
...that she was about to marry for the third time. Husband No. 3 was to be Captain Boerge Rohde, tall, flaxen-haired member of King Christian's Life Guards. Kammerjunker (Gentleman-in-Waiting) Kaptajn Rohde, his fiancee confided, was 42, musically inclined, a graceful dancer, a man of wit & humor. They had met at His Majesty's New Year's Eve court ball seven months ago. In 1903 Ruth Bryan married a U. S. artist named William Homer Leavitt, bore him two children before divorcing him in 1909. Next year her marriage to Major Reginald Altham Owen...
...French-speaking farmers. His father was a Canadian Supreme Court Justice, his mother's father a Quebec Lieutenant Governor. His family gave the Catholic Church a cardinal, and Premier Taschereau, like France's great 17th Century Cardinal Richelieu, has prodigious habits of work, a suave and barbed wit, a lean, aristocratic grey face, an iron will. Nevertheless, last week he paid a stiff price for the fatty degeneration 39 years of power had brought to Quebec Liberals...