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...Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich & pious, kept the name of the man he had ''advised" George V to appoint Governor General a dead secret. Last week this darkest of horses romped home a winner, sorely vexed Canadian sweepstakers. Darkest horse: Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough...
...family long in the service of Britain's'Royal family, and George V, after having had to appoint a "native" whom he had never seen Governor General of Australia (TIME, Dec. 15), has been most eager to send a British blue-blood to Canada. Lady Bessborough is French, the daughter of the late Baron Jean de Neutlize, and so arc many Canadians more or less French...
Although he has had no experience in Colonial government the Earl of Bessborough has had almost every sort of business experience with the 35 corporations of which he is a director. He is in diamonds, explosives, radio, banking, railroads, life insurance, subways...