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When white-lipped "Saint Maggie" risked a closure vote, bellowing John Wheately rushed into the Opposition lobby ahead of the Conservatives themselves, took with him other Clydesiders-fiery Jimmy Maxton, carrot-haired George Buchanan, dour David Kirkwood. Amid Tory cheers and then a dead hush Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin edged over for a tense, whispered conference with Liberal David Lloyd George. If the Welshman agreed to go in with Baldwin, as he did fortnight ago on the picayune messenger boys issue (TIME, Dec. 9), then the MacDonald Cabinet was as good as done. But Mr. Lloyd George is peculiar. Like...
...Paul Kirkwood was rich and married- to Claire, daughter of his father's financial partner. Claire felt the marriage without love, and she lugged away from Paul. It was while he was building the dam in loneliness that he saw Carla, strapping, kindly village teacher. Paul wrote Claire extolling Carla, which brought Claire post-haste to the forest-river country. There was an amiable picnic on the bank of the swift-flowing Mistassini. Paul fell in. "And then, on the cliff, one woman said to another: 'Are you going with him?' The woman spoken to gazed wide...
...Manhattan, Max, a police dog, watched his owner, one Gilbert Kirkwood, a plasterer, going to sleep with a cigaret in his mouth. When he saw that Gilbert Kirkwood's cigaret had dropped and ignited the bedclothes, Max dragged the burning bedclothes away from Gilbert Kirkwood and put them in the kitchen. Then he dragged Gilbert Kirkwood, overcome by smoke, off the bed and put him in the kitchen right next the bedclothes. After this, Max barked until a policeman came to revive Gilbert Kirkwood and to extinguish both his bedclothes and the conflagration caused by dragging these from room...
...Dave" Kirkwood, irrepressible Laborite, then shouted: "This isn't a boy's job; it's a man's job!" After the momentary merriment had died down, he suggested a motion that Sir Philip, who was still standing, be not heard. The speaker dissented and disorder again broke out. The speaker then ordered an adjournment of an hour and the mace was removed, signifying that the session was ended...
...Near Kirkwood, N. 3., three small boys bailed from a creek 200 one dollar bills in a bale...