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Perhaps because he detests gambling, Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich & pious, kept the name of the man he had ''advised" George V to appoint Governor General a dead secret. Last week this darkest of horses romped home a winner, sorely vexed Canadian sweepstakers. Darkest horse: Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough...
...province of the Student Council must be that of an organized body. The plans announced today affirming the intention of the Student Council to appoint nominating committees to work in conjunction with the present class officers are needless. To say that they are a departure from tradition without the consent of the classes is to say almost nothing, in view of the general disinterest in the matter. Nevertheless, here again it would be better to do things with some measure of regularity...
Precedent. As yet there is no clearly defined precedent covering incidents such as those of the I'm Alone and Josephine K. Should the Canadian Government protest Captain Cluett's killing, the next step would be to appoint a commissioner from each country to arbitrate. Justice Van (See col. 3) Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court and Justice Duff of the Canadian Supreme Court have yet to settle the I'm Alone case...
Perhaps the most influential change of policy outlined by Dean Hanford is the decision to appoint a permanent Dean of Freshmen. The reasons for the change and the avowal to retain one or, it is to be hoped, two, Assistant Deans are fully explained. But of all the duties incumbent on the new officer none are more important than the supervision of Freshman instructors and advisers...
...Laborite, Premier Lang has found every Socialist bill he has tried to pass blocked by the Legislative Council. In New South Wales, an exception to other Australian States, the members of the Upper House are not elected by the voters but appointed by the Governor at the suggestion of the Premier. Premier Lang announced that, just as the late great Herber Asquith pushed his Parliament Bill (curtailing the veto power of the Lords over money bills) through the British House of Lords by threatening to create enough new Liberal Peers to override Conservative opposition, he (Mr. Lang) would appoint enough...