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...power as Prime Minister he would call an Imperial conference on the question, submit its decision, if any, to a national referendum (a most unprecedented course in Britain, where referendums are considered contrary to the spirit of parliamentary institutions). Within an hour after Baldwin's about-face, Baron Beaver-brook's Evening Standard splashed out in what was said to be the largest headline type ever used in London: MR. BALDWIN DECLARES FOR THE EMPIRE. Below, Beaverbrook declared for Baldwin...
Significance. Baron Beaverbrook is frankly out to become Prime Minister, vaunts himself a "business statesman." Viscount Rothermere has failed to get political preferment for his son, Cecil Harmsworth, from any of the old line parties, hopes to make the young man an Ambassador. Last week the Beaver-meres insisted that they would contest "more than 50 seats" at the next General Election. All political dopesters agreed that the effect of this would be to defeat Conservative candidates in constituencies contested by a United Empirist, and probably to elect the Labor candidates in such constituencies. In other words the new party...
...notice in TIME. Dec. 16, that Hoover is asking for appropriations for another commission. This "beaver man,'' as you called him last year, is undoubtedly starting things moving. Many of us old Timers are wondering if he is not undertaking too much. Personally I prefer the policy of his predecessor, who sat still, said nothing, and acted, when he acted, chiefly on the recommendations of big bankers-men who knew what they were doing...
...Beaver Dam, Wis., a family of 40 had a reunion, celebrated by nibbling a 100-year-old egg brought from China which had mystic hieroglyphs on its shell...
...General of Finances: "I have forgotten to ask you to finance me with a hat similar to the one which the Bishop of Valence, Messire Loys de Poictiers, gave me, which he said he had brought from Rome. I think it was of some felt other than beaver, a good inch thick, covering the shoulders and back completely, and coming well over the horse's crupper; it was also well turned up in front and at the sides, so that one had no need of a cloak against the rain, and in hot weather it was as good...