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Historians, thumbing over old Gazette files, wonder how Editors Dixon and Hunter would have treated President Hoover's election. For this was their whole account of a potent colonial event: "The Hon. John Hancock, Esq., a Delegate [to the Continental Congress] from Boston, is appointed President of the Congress in the room of the Hon. Peyton Randolph, Esq." Impartial, the Gazette gave George Washington no more space when he was appointed commander-in-chief of "all the provincial troops in North America...
...Trump. Of course such ringing blarney was not the only trump in the hand of Privy Seal Jim (one of the best bridge players in London and always for highest stakes). His long suit was a scheme which he privately unfolded to that shrewd though cherub-faced statesman Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister in Canada...
Stumping about the conference painfully on his two rubber-tipped canes, the Rt. Hon. Snowden seemed a puny match for his Latin opponents: the delegations of France, Belgium and Italy, marshaled by doughty French Prime Minister Aristide Briand. It was a queer tussle. M. Briand is at least three times as great in girth as the frail Yorkshireman, and nine years his senior in statecraft. The Latins, supported by Japan and with Germany's blocky Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann neutral, were in solid phalanx pressing for adoption of the Young Plan unchanged. They were satisfied with the size...
...Scottish home in Lossiemouth. Even kinetic Margaret ("Maggie") Bondfield, onetime shop clerk and now Minister of Labor, adopted a surprising attitude of laissez faire. True, a subcommittee of a subcommittee of a Cabinet subcommittee was established, "to consider and report upon" the situation, but even its chairman. Laborite Rt. Hon. William Graham. President of the Board of Trade, took only perfunctory steps. Inference : Laborite best minds thought, last week, that the Lancashire strikers, if let alone, would win a not too long drawn out victory...
Capt. Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, M. P., diligent soldier, former Page of Honor to Queen Victoria, now a grizzled, crop-lipped campaigner with 25 years' service in the Conservative ranks, was led last week to the Chair of the House of Commons. Solemnly following the ritual, Capt. Fitzroy made "formal gestures of protest,'' shook his head, thrust out his arms pleadingly. Then, still in ritual, he abandoned formal gestures, sat upon the chair, and became for the second time and by unanimous vote, Speaker of the House of Commons, First Commoner of the Realm. As such...