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Paperman Graustein did not realize the power of Premier Taschereau. The Hon. Louis Alexandré Taschereau is of a family superpotent in Quebec politics. His father, the Hon. Jean Thomas Taschereau, was a judge of the supreme court. Still more important was his uncle, the late great Elzear Alexandré Taschereau, dour-faced Archbishop of Quebec, first Canadian Cardinal, a founder of Laval University and for over 50 years an immense power in the life of the province. Premier Louis, cardinal's nephew, was destined from the first for a public career. Premier since 1920, he it was who framed the widely...
Died. Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, 81, "Father of the House of Commons"; of septic rheumatism; in London. For 44 years he held the same seat in Parliament; for 62 years he was a journalist. He was a wholehearted defender of the late great Thomas Parnell, imprudent Irish statesman. He gave George Bernard Shaw his first job as a music critic. Three weeks ago, illness forced him to suspend the last of his publications, T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly (TIME...
...shrewd mob psychologist is Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward, George V's Prime Minister in New Zealand.* Compulsory military training has lately been a hot subject for discussion in the Antipodes. Last fortnight Australia's new Labor Government abolished compulsion (TIME, Nov.11). Before the issue could come to a political boil in New Zealand, Prime Minister Ward made his move. He arranged that any "conchy" (conscientious objector) not desiring to drill with the military, should drill with the Salvation Army, receive "training in social service," learn to sing hosannahs, jingle tambourines, sell The War Cry (Salvation weekly...
...16?Close of American Institute of Steel Construction meeting at Biloxi, Miss. Speaker: Hon. Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister...
...entire cast follows. The Rt. Hon. R. Selby Mannock, M.P. R. R. Wallstein '32 Lady Jane Mannock Betty Jean Crocker '30 Arthur Mannock Brinckerhoff Jackson '32 Freda Mannock Elizabeth Johnson Digby W. A. Richardson '32 Edward Eversley J. F. Joyce '32 Bertie Capp A. R. Goodman '32 John Reader R. H. Jones '30 Lord Carchester H. G. Meyer '30 Sally Jessica Hill...