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Meanwhile, Joe Lyons & wife loomed last week as two of the most notable characters to emerge from what uppity Great Britons call ''Down Under." Seven short years ago the Hon. Mr. Lyons was merely Premier of Tasmania, an island which is down under Australia and referred to by Australians as "The Speck." From this insignificant island Joe Lyons bounded with Horatio Alger rapidity to the Premiership (January 1932) of busted Australia whose national credit he proceeded to restore. Australian-born, the Premier and Mrs. Lyons had never been outside Australia in their lives until this spring when they sailed...
...Christ." This week at a meeting at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, Group members returning from abroad were to tell how they had set ablaze not only Norway but also Denmark. It began in Geneva in 1933, when a Group team met, lunched and "changed'' the Hon. Carl J. Hambro, a Speaker of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), leader of its Conservative Party. At Speaker Hambro's suggestion a team of 35 "life-changers" arrived in Norway last October, among them well-beloved Bishop Logan Herbert Roots of Hankow, spending a year of Group travel by special permission...
...York Times' personals column ran an advertisement: "Raftery, Hon. Thomas, (Our Only Ordained, Anointed by God; Most Holy American Emperor, Imperial King Tom I, Of The Royal Raphia Family, of ancient Babylon on the great river Euphrates. AmRaphael being the First King mentioned in the Bible, Book of Genesis, 14th Chapter, Verse I 'Amraphael, King of Babylon' and his descendant Nebuchadnezzar being the First World King; whose wonderful Irish-Phonecian Sailors, rounded Arabia; founded the great City of Raphia. on the Mediterranean; Sailed through the Pillars of Hercules and discovered 'New Raphia' the America...
...Hon. Secretary & Hon. Organizer National Peace Declaration East Dulwich, England Up to last week more than 6,000,000 votes had been cast in Britain's Peace Poll. Results thus far tabulated...
...proposed repudiation threw Canada into an uproar. Conservative newspapers thundered about disastrous repercussions on Ontario's credit, if not that of the whole Dominion. Securities tumbled. Protective committees tossed out advertisements asking: "If Hon. Mr. Hepburn is RIGHT, the courts will uphold him. So why deny an appeal?" In Ottawa the Federal Government feared that Hon. Mr. Hepburn's move would put bad ideas in the heads of other politicians...