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Died. Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, 68, survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912 with his wife. Lady Duff-Gordon (Lucy Sutherland), onetime London and Manhattan modiste (Lucile) who is a sister of Novelist Elinor Glyn; in London...
...presslords' mannikin. He entered the lists at St. George's supported by a dignified group of manufacturers who wanted to air the issue of high protective tariffs v. low protective tariff or "safeguarding." Sir Ernest Petter was to advocate high tariffs, and the regular Conservative candidate. Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, husband of beauteous Lady Diana Manners, would of course support "safeguarding," the official party policy. In this way some very instructive debate would be had, and in time regular Conservatives might think better of high tariffs, which would please the manufacturers...
...last restraining bond and make Canada completely free of domination by London. This it will do by revoking the act which makes His Majesty's Privy Council in London the court of last resort in Canadian litigation. Once this tie is severed the Canadian bench on which Judge Duff sits will be actually "supreme" in Canada...
...Judge Duff used to have fun corresponding in Greek with the late great Viscount Haldane. He now has fun writing letters to Dr. Albert Einstein and getting replies, doing problems in higher mathematics for recreation...
...Embargo. If the Duff speech was somewhat stuffy all Canada was excited and agog last week over an Order-in-Council announced by the Hon. Edmond B. Ryckman, Minister of National Revenue. The O-in-C, a most drastic embargo, shut out of Canada virtually all Russian produce, including Soviet coal, wood pulp, lumber of all kinds, asbestos, furs...