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Edward of Wales, heir to the throne, is, and would like to remain, a bachelor. Next in succession is the studious, slightly stuttering Duke of York, of whom Edward P. has often privately told his friends: "He would make a far better King than I." Third in succession at the present time is effervescent, curly-headed Princess Elizabeth, "Princess Lilybet," King George's favorite grandchild, now aged 4. Though Britain's two greatest rulers were women, politicians dislike queens. A Man-Child was sorely needed, much-longed-for last week...
Obvious was the deduction that Canada is wholeheartedly in favor of Bachelor Bennett's program of "Canada First" and high protective tariffs. A further fact which most U. S. editors privately admitted, few printed, is that the average Canadian today is frankly anti-U. S. The Hawley-Smoot tariff, which Canadians interpreted as directly aimed against their chief exports, crystallized feelings. Both parties promised retaliatory measures. The Conservatives' measures were more severe. They got the votes...
...eleven p. m. and midnight were the hours at which Canada's bachelor rivals for the Prime Ministry made their final campaign speeches one night last week. Bachelor William Lyon MacKenzie King (Liberal) who has been Prime Minister almost uninterruptedly since 1921 spoke at 11 p.m., had the middle word. The first and the last words of the evening were had by Bachelor Richard Bedford Bennett (Conservative) who had never been Prime Minister, ached...
Ladies All. Place a wealthy wench-conscious young bachelor in an isolated studio in the purlieus of Westport, Conn. Put within grasping distance a plump French maid, an unsatisfied wife, and a beauteous blonde sculptress whom he has long and vainly loved. Have one of the three pay an incognito midnight visit to his chamber. Next morning have each vehemently deny, then reluctantly admit, his charge. The result: pleasant theatrical fare for a summer evening. Ladies All is a doctored U. S. version of Rumanian Prince Antoine Bibesco's Who. Musicomedian Walter Woolf, in his debut as a legitimate...
...National, which has thrived in the nine-year tenure of the Liberals, might well be satisfied with the retention of that party in power. Any expenditure of capital sums by Canadian National must have authority of an Order in Council or a vote of Parliament. On the other hand Bachelor Richard Bedford Bennett, Conservative leader, was onetime counsel for Canadian Pacific...