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Canada's Conservative Richard Bedford Bennett is now the dignified, correct and unpopular leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Last week in Ottawa, this onetime premier rose before the Budget Committee in the House of Commons to denounce the duty-free entrance of U. S. publications and syndicate features into Canada, to flay some of the Dominion's most vulgar and popular U. S. comic-strip importations...
...Arthur Bannister's trial for murder in Dorchester was enlivened by tall, red-coated Royal Mounted Police Sergeant Bedford Peters' fainting in the witness box, as he examined the late Phillip Lake's gold teeth. Arthur was summarily convicted of murder...
...investigate this practice, the Ministerial Association of Los Angeles, representing 400 pastors and 485,000 church members, hired Fictionist Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones and Dr. U. L. Di Ghilini, onetime Florida drugless practitioner and professional student of "psychic phenomena." The investigators had little difficulty piling up evidence for the ministers, so amiable and obliging were the investigated. The office of one "mother church" was not downed by a request for an ordination certificate for "Rev. Drake Googoo," a "Persian clairvoyant with some stage experience." The certificate was procured for $10, and the Ministerial Association made front pages...
Russell Grinnell will imitate his New Bedford forefathers by entering the fishing industry; Gladwin A. Hill, Transcript correspondent, will deal in ice, coal, and whimsy; and Frank E. Sweetser Jr., another journalist, will become a stenographer. Then Roger W. Drury is attracted by writing, Samuel J. Silberman by farming, and William H. M. Glazier by forestry...
Married. Maria Iturbi, 18, daughter of Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor; and Stephen Hero, 20, concert violinist, Iturbi's protege; in Bedford Hills...