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...referred for settlement to two commissioners of arbitration appointed under the U. S.-British liquor treaty of 1924. One was precise, deliberate Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court. The other was the Canadian Supreme Court's bland, blue-eyed, brilliant Justice Lyman Poore Duff, who relaxes for sleep with calculus problems and long corresponded in Greek with the late Lord Haldane. Years passed. Justice Duff was upped to Chief Justice of Canada. Justice Van Devanter saw burgeon in the U. S. a New Deal. Prohibition passed and the I'm Alone, rotting...
HARVARD MCGILL Dewey, l.w. r.w., McLernon Ford, c. c., Crutchfield Carr, r.w. l.w., Duff Watts, l.d. r.d., Wigle Ecker, r.d. l.d., Meiklejohn Emerson, g. g., McHugh...
...England remains England and His Majesty's Government felt not the slightest need to send Acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin into the breach last week. Instead, fingering his Old Etonian tie, the husband of Lady Diana (The Miracle) Manners arose from the Government bench. In his own right Alfred Duff Cooper, M. P., is Financial Secretary at the War Office and a special protege of Conservative Leader Baldwin. When Patron Baldwin was being attacked with special savagery by the Press of Viscount Rothermere, Protege Duff Cooper publicly declared that "Lord Rothermere hasn't got the guts of a louse!" (TIME...
...Author. Daughter of a Canadian, widow of an Englishman (Clayton Glyn, J. P.), sister of a onetime London-Manhattan modiste (Lady Duff-Gordon), sixtyish, still handsome, Elinor Glyn has always exuded a faintly Hearstian phosphorescence. Considering herself a feline type, she strews her house in London, Paris, Hollywood with tiger and leopard skins, keeps two Persian cats who understand, she says, everything that is said to them. She and her sister as débutantes in London were famed for their brilliant wardrobe, much of it designed and made by themselves. Elinor Glyn began to write as a girl when...
...chipping last week was cautious. George V conferred on Premier Bennett nothing, bestowed a minor knighthood on Chief Justice Joseph Matthias Tellier of King's Bench, Quebec and made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael & St. George out of Chief Justice Lyman Poore Duff of Canada's Supreme Court. To 32 Canadian women he gave the Order of the British Empire for their good and charitable works. Snapped ex-Premier King, now Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition at Ottawa: "An attempt to create in Canada a social order based on titular...