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...Duke of York, Edward of Wales and Queen Mary, who has thus far presided. Cables from Dublin revealed that the Irish Free State has been quietly refusing to deal with the Crown Council. Thus a grave issue of state was raised, even as the British Isles were politically in ferment, last week, over five crucial by-elections, and the coming General Parliamentary Election (TIME, March 11) for which camp-arguing is in full swing...
Word of her arrival was kept from Brother Bramwell at first. Physicians who had cared for him for two years, ill with nervous collapse and enfeebled by his 72 strenuous years, said he could not stand the shock. But finally, fearing lest the moil and ferment at international headquarters should come in some more violent manner to his ears, his wife and his daughter, Commissioner Catherine Booth, gently informed...
Prodigious was the final ferment among citizens not directly responsible for conducting the campaign...
...President was not elected by the Chinese people. Most of them have never seen a ballot, and millions have never heard of one. The 17 years of political ferment through which China has passed since the collapse of the Manchu Empire in 1911, have left the nation with nothing so advanced as an electorate. Therefore Marshal Chiang Kai-shek was elected last week by the Central Executive Council of the Nationalist Party, to serve as "President of the Government." Not for a long, weary while will it be possible to democratically elect a "President of China." For the present...
...Brady, A. H. Woods, George White, Dillingham-everyone who sees plays or reads about them has heard of these. There is only one new man among the first-line producers. Younger than the rest but equally successful, he took it easy last week while others were in a ferment of excitement, getting their new offerings ready for the stage. Having already supplied Broadway with the first success of the season, The Front Page, he stated erroneously that he was through producing plays, went to the country, and contemplated not the future but the past...