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Power to pardon rests with His Majesty's Home Secretary, at present the Rt. Hon. John Robert Clynes, onetime worker in a cotton mill. One night last week he sat up late, thought about one Olive Catherine Wise. She had put a baby (hers) in an oven (cold) and turned on the gas. She had been sentenced to hang. Were there extenuating circumstances...
President Herbert Hoover was informed last week that he may expect this week a visit, "strictly unofficial," from Canada's Prime Minister, Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett...
Married. Lady Perdita Asquith, granddaughter of the late great Earl of Oxford & Asquith, goddaughter of Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (who was present at the wedding); and Capt. Hon. William George Hervey Jolliffe of the Coldstream Guards; in London...
...Behind the wheat deal is a great project, initiated by the Hon. H. H. Stevens, Canada's Minister of Trade & Commerce, for the granting of a $1,000,000,000 loan to China, designed to reinstate the values of silver all through the orient and finally to place China on her feet so completely that she will become a huge and profitable market for British, Canadian and American goods...
...Hon. R. B. Bennett [Prime Minister of Canada, has] merely hinted at the giant plan in hand . . . intimated that some credit arrangement might have to be made to enable China to buy Canadian wheat in large quantities. [He has not attempted] to outline the very interesting and stupendous plan which is now being discussed in London, New York, Washington and Ottawa for the rehabilitation of silver and the general reorganization of oriental trade and markets...