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Soon this inconvenient idea had been talked down, but later, just as the Act was about to pass second reading who should walk into the House, fresh and elated from a splendid dinner, but the Rt. Hon. Winston ("Winnie") Churchill, big and sportive as a dancing bear,' clad in evening clothes of sleekest cut?and obviously spoiling for a Parliamentary fight...
...Hon. Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, Warden of New College, Oxford, England, made the speech of the day. He briefly, completely traced Massachusetts' growth and influence. Through the Bay Colony, he said, English blood spread over the U. S., made one-quarter of the present U. S. population. Then he said: "Let it not, however, be imagined that Massachusetts . . . was [then] governed by principles which we here today can recognize as reasonable or just. . . . [The Puritans] spurned democracy, they persecuted conscience . . . taxed without consent." He had intended to say, and in the pre-issued version of his speech did say much...
...protest against our effete Parliamentary system. The Labor Government will be faced with many more such protests while it continues to ape its so-called betters. Lord Tom Noddy may cut a gracious figure in silk breeches, but the same cannot be said of Jimmy Thomas [the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas, M. P., P. C., onetime engine greaser, today Secretary of State for the Dominions...
...Traitor" King. In their campaign speeches Bachelors Bennett and King have made amply clear that each is resolved to deprive the U. S. of any undue tariff advantage. The recent budget, brought in by Mr. King's Finance Minister, the Rt. Hon. Charles Avery ("Charlie") Dunning (TIME, May 12). wobbled as far from traditional free trade as did the Al Smith- Democratic platform...
Married. Henry Killam Murphy of New York, architectural adviser to the Nationalist Government of China (TIME, Oct. 14). designer of Peking Union Medical College, Yale-in-China, Ginling College; and Mrs. Dagny Carter, who was given in marriage by Hon. Nelson Trusler Johnson, U. S. Minister to China: at Gin-ling College. Nanking. Architect Murphy's best man: Dr. C. T. Wang, Chinese National Government's Minister of Foreign Affairs...