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Though doctors made "Mitch" rest his sore throat, his first triumphant act was to whisper husky threats against the Lieutenant Governor, Col. the Hon. Herbert Bruce, who as the King's representative in Ontario must now call Farmer Hepburn to be premier...
...from the front page where his President's words are recorded, John Investor got a far different impression. "I have received a disturbing letter from the Administrator for the Petroleum Industry, Hon. Harold L. Ickes, informing me of the continued daily production of oil in excess of the maximum amount determined on by the Administrator," President Roosevelt wrote last week to interested House and Senate committees. "Records of the Bureau of Mines during the first three months of this year show a daily average production of 'illegal' oil of 149,000 barrels. Technically speaking, this...
...greatest exporters of the materials of war in the world, the bulk of the credit goes to Vickers-Armstrongs. It makes other things than armaments, true enough; such unwarlike products as sewing machines and golf clubs come from its factories. But its chairman, General the Hon. Sir Herbert Lawrence, G. C. B., onetime Chief of Staff of the B. E. F., has put himself on record as saying. "Vickers-Armstrongs. Ltd., relies very largely on armament orders for its existence." The Vickers research staffs work constantly to bring into mass production such bolsters to international comfort as the Vickers-Garden...
...some $4,500,000 a year is considered so unsatisfactory that insurance must be carried against it. And England's aristocracy takes pleasure in clipping its coupons. Among the more prominent shareholders, in 1932, of Vickers or other concerns associated with the production of materials of war were; Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberiain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir Austen Chamberiain, M. P., winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. In 1914 the list was even more imposing. It included that lofty philosopher Lord Balfour, that glittering such Lord Curzon, and also Lord Kinnaird (President...
...crime. Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were never accused of bribery-by-belly when they hauled hollow-eyed politicians out of bed to attend early breakfasts at the White House and listen to Presidential persuasion. But Britain took the Churchill charge seriously. Grave under his wig, Speaker the Rt. Hon. Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy allowed the resolution to be passed, without vote, to the Committee on Privilege for investigation...