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...Chamberlain lacks the human appeal necessary to hold the highest office in Great Britain with success. After his spontaneous duck-pond heroism they all felt immensely more hopeful, and London newspapers blazed out with the first human interest story of all time about Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Privy Councilor to His Majesty and M. P. for Ladywood...
Neither the Army nor the Navy was eager to guard the Last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen," famed Prince Kimmochi Saionji, for many years Japan's great moderator. As the chief councilor of young Emperor Hirohito, venerable Prince Saionji has been for long years Japan's "Maker of Cabinets." Fortnight ago he barely escaped Army assassins. Only policemen last week comprised his guards...
Most of his campaign speeches have been made from the branches of trees or clinging to lamp posts. Thirteen times the voters of Le Puy have elected him either their Municipal Councilor or Mayor. The fourteenth time (1932) they sent him as their Deputy to Paris where he continued his habit of making long speeches at the drop...
...high, oldfashioned collar he affects. "Most lamentable!" cried he. "The land is now producing fine crops." Chiming in with His Lordship, the Dorset County Council appealed to His Majesty's Government to assemble their new air Might somewhere else. "Dorset is becoming an armed camp!" sputtered Dorset County Councilor A. H. Edwards. "We will soon be taking visitors to see not the swans of Abbotsbury but the new bombing station, then to Holton Heath to see where cordite is being made and on to Bovington to see tanks in operation! The amenities of this country are being destroyed...
...Cadogan Gardens. Home then went the Right Honorable Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, second Baronet of his line, Privy Councilor, Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India and Honorary Air Commodore of Great Britain, to one of London's most amazing town houses, No. 18 Cadogan Gardens. As gracious Lady Maud Lygon Hoare, a daughter of the Sixth Earl of Beauchamp, has said, "It is full of odds & ends we have picked up," many of them brought from distant lands...