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...arts and one Benn W. Levy, advertised as a young Oxford graduate nursing his first play which proved a great success in London and is being tried on Boston as an acid test, bring in the cake. The confectionery is a veritable plum pudding, filled with excerpts from the works of all authorities on women beginning with Adam. Shopenhauer, and H.L.M., Bernard Shaw and Havelock Ellis, Freud and Elinor Glyn contribute each his plum...
...author. Not only has he edited his college magazine at Trinity, but also during the past year he has been editor of the "Granta", the best known university journal in Europe. His first book, "Jack of all Trades", a miscellany of verse and prose, was published by Ernest Benn, Ltd. early in June. And his reputation as a writer of light verse is not entirely confined to England, for more than once his initials have been found in "Life...
...Captain William Wedgwood Benn (Liberal), supported by ex-Premier George and Barrister Sir John Simon (Liberal), moved a vote of censure on the Speaker (John H. Whitley)* for permitting closure of debate during the second reading of the finance bill (see paragraph 2 above), on the first day, thereby depriving the Liberals of effective reply to the measures and the protection that is due to minorities in the House. A vote of censure on the Speaker is an unusual occurrence and the Liberals made it clear that in no way was the character of the Speaker involved. Conservative and Laborites...
Captain W. W. Benn, Liberal, urged that the Government pay more attention to civil aviation, in which field Britain is also outstripped...
This statement was made while ex-Premier Asquith, the leader whom Captain Benn prefers, was "journeying to Egypt to consult the Sphinx on the Liberal riddle," in the words of Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The political significance of the incipient revolt is little, because most of the Liberals in the new House of Commons are faithful to Mr. George. If, however, Mr. Asquith should decide to return from Egypt to contest a Dundee seat made vacant by the death of Laborite Edmund D. Morel, and if he should be elected, the small Liberal group...