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Canadian judges, rarely criticized, even more rarely deign to answer critics. Last week octogenarian Justice Robert Maxwell Dennistoun of Manitoba's Appeal Court took exception to the rule, turned on a critic...
Last week Justice Dennistoun swore in Missouri-born Ewen Alexander McPherson, 65, as the new Chief Justice succeeding James Emile Prendergast, 86. Justice Dennistoun used the occasion to rip into the Free Press. He roared that its editorial was "as treacherous as the attack made by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. It can be compared only to a raid on a hospital ship flying the Red Cross or a mercy ship with all lights burning and no means of defense available...
...ballast tanks, penetrated the fabric, sloshed into the cabins, put the electric stove out of commission. Next day's breakfast consisted of sardines, whiskey & soda. The winds slowed the R-100 materially-for five hours the speed varied between 15 and 35 m. p. h. Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney, designer, had hoped to make the 3,200-mi. crossing in 50 hr.; the time to moorings at Cardington, England was 57 hr. 5 min.* Officials announced that new "skins" would be placed on both R-100 and R-101; that both craft will be kept busy...
...expected, her long-deferred flight from Cardington, England to St. Hubert Airport, Montreal. Largest lighter-than-air craft in the world, fourth to fly the Atlantic, the R-100 made the crossing in 78 hr. 49 min.- She carried 37 officers & crew, seven passengers, including her designer, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney...
Died. Sir Cecil Burney, Bart., 71, of London, Admiral of the British Fleet, second in command at the famed Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), in London. His son, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney. designer of Airship R-100, succeeds to the baronetcy...