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President Hoover has not yet been burned in effigy at Moscow, differing in this respect from Aristide Briand, Sir Austen Chamberlain* and the President of China, Marshal Chiang Kaishek. But last week both Mr. Hoover and ex-Chairman Alexander Legge of the U. S. Federal Farm Board became in Moscow popular candidates for stuffing & burning. Reason: "The Hoover Plot against the Soviet Union...
...Chamberlain had three wives. The first two (cousins) each bore him a son, and both unfortunate mothers died in childbed. No. 1 son by No. 1 wife is Sir Austen Chamberlain, famed Nobel Peace Prize winner (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). Many people privately consider him an affected blockhead, the husband of one of the smartest "political wives" in Europe. Austen copied his father in all ways as best he could (omitting only the 19th Century orchid); he made a name once as great as that of his friend Briand; and he retired with the Garter...
...Howe is to be known as the Henry Saltonstall Howe Fund, and its interest will be used for the purchase of books according to the discretion of library officials. Books from the libraries of nearly all the presidents of the United States and seven first editions of Jane Austen. George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy are also left to the University. In addition the officials of Widener Library are empowered to select any 100 volumes which they may desire from the library of Mr. Howe...
...Austen Chamberlain, the only Knight of the Garter to win the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926) and the only K. G. who is not a peer, sat with the crimson-&-blue-robed Knights who boast themselves "the oldest order of knighthood in the world...
Only female M. P. to sit through the entire afternoon, night and morning debate was Miss Ethel Bentham (Laborite). After less than two hours' recess, the House convened again as the Committee of Supply, voted down a motion by Sir Austen Chamberlain to censure the Government for failing to alleviate unemployment. In the stodgy debate which followed (but got nowhere), Prime Minister MacDonald announced that, on the basis of a proposal by Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, the Liberal and Labor parties will pool their "best brains" in a conference to devise "work schemes." Efforts had been made to induce...