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...September 1931. Invited to preside was the Hon. John William Davis, onetime (1918-21) Ambassador to Great Britain, onetime (1924) Democratic Candidate for President. Also invited were President Ernest Hatch Wilkins of Oberlin College and President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke. Bennington's own President Robert Devore Leigh, procured two years ago from nearby Williams College, was there to explain to one and all what is perhaps the most flexible U. S. educational experiment to date...
...Only one other Labor peer was created last week, Major Dudley Leigh Aman, by profession a wireless expert, who did yeoman service as a speaker during the last General election. With Baron Ponsonby and Baron Aman the number of Laborites in the House of Lords is now 14, as against approximately 500 Conservatives and 90 Liberals. It had been rumored that Scot MacDonald would "advise" (i.e. instruct) the King to create 100 Labor peers, but the public excitement sure to follow such a perfectly justifiable move was deemed not worth risking until Labor has an overwhelming majority in the House...
...Philadelphia, Mrs. B. Leigh Colvin of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union discussed Congressmen who vote dry and drink wet. Said she: "They are not hypocrites." She called them, ''practical politicians...
...LEIGH STEVENSON New York...
...other aviator-automobilists, Round-the-World-Flyers Leigh Wade amd Linton Wells, made a non-stop Packard trip from Los Angeles to New York...