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...credit Scot MacDonald resisted temptation, conferred as to means of com promise during half the night with snowy-headed Charles Alfred Cripps, onetime vicar, ist Baron Parmoor, and leader of the 14 Labor Peers who, absurdly enough, represent the largest British political party in the House of Lords...
...Regular Republicans did not want La Follette on their committee was plain. The Finance Committee is com posed of eleven Republicans and eight Democrats. Among the Republicans is Michigan's Couzens, prime foe of Secretary Mellon. If Senator La Follette and Couzens join with Democrat members in opposing the Administration's fiscal poli cies, which is altogether likely, the Regular Republican majority will be overthrown by one vote. Well aware of this fact were the Insurgent Republicans in urging Sena tor La Follette for the Committee...
Another vacancy on the Finance Com mittee occurred when Senator Frederic Moseley Sackett resigned to become Ambassador to Germany. To take his place Senator John Thomas of Idaho was chosen. Kansas-born, banker, stockman, twice Idaho's Republican National Committeeman, Senator Thomas was accept able to his Eastern colleagues because he is only irregularly irregular in his senate votes...
...menace] is one of the most fantastic bogies dressed up in my experience." He described British Cables & Wireless, Ltd. as a "creaking, awkward, ponderous set-up." He said he could wish a business competitor no worse luck, than to be hooked up in such a system, maintained that his com pany and Radio Corp. "hold the British merger in the hollow of their hand...
...respondents facing a dire dearth of news cornered Mr. Henderson and chorused, "Come on, tell us how you came to be called 'Uncle Arthur!" "Certainly, gentlemen," said "R. M.'s Y. M.," beaming. "A long time ago one of the oldest members of the House of Com mons called me 'Uncle.' Others overheard him, and since then I have always been dubbed 'Uncle Arthur.' I don't mind. I consider it a term of endearment...