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Smart Sir Herbert Samuel, leader of the orthodox (Free Trade) Liberal Party, fired an effective broadside of cod-liver oil last week at the MacDonald-Baldwin National Government from which he and Lord Snowden resigned on the tariff issue...
...want to give just one illustration." cried Sir Herbert last week at a female Liberal rally, "of how the interests of the British consumer were ignored by the National Government at the Ottawa [Tariff] Conference. The most valuable medicine for delicate children is cod-liver oil. Hundreds of thousands of poor parents in this country have to buy bottle after bottle to save the lives and strengthen the bodies of their babies, and most of it has been coming from Norway duty free. But now the delegates of the British Government have agreed at Ottawa to impose a tariff...
...read the last copy of TIME, which was forwarded to me, on the slope of a heather-clad mountain. When I had finished it I buried it among the ling. [Note: Not the edible cod-like fish, but another word for heather.] I wonder what will spring from that spot! Yours till time shall be no more...
...monoplane was the ship that Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn flew, by fits & starts, around the world last year. Pilot Pangborn was at the field to see his old ship take off for its second transatlantic hop. After the takeoff. the big white plane was seen over Cape Cod, then 1,200 mi. on its course toward Cape Finisterre by the tanker Winnebago, then 400 mi. from Europe by the S. S. France. And then it was seen no more. On the night that The American Nurse was supposed to have landed in Rome, a total eclipse...
...nearly 34 mi. per min. from northwest to southeast? from the Arctic Ocean, past the North Magnetic Pole (near where Professor Arthur Holly Compton hopes to be), across Hudson Bay, James Bay, Province of Quebec, New Hampshire, northern Vermont and southern Maine, the northeastern tip of Massachusetts, Cape Cod. The eclipse ends in the middle of the Atlantic...