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...Constitutional Club, a blue-blood and blue-chip Tory audience which applauded him rousingly. Socialists complained that he had infringed "the rights of Her Majesty's Parliament" by airing "important policy" before a private group, but such constitutional niceties were soon submerged in debate over what his lordship...
...Colossal Effigy. In 1920, John went on one of his most famous rampages. Shortly after he had finished a portrait of Lord Leverhulme, founder of the Lever Bros, soap empire, the canvas was returned with the head cut out of the picture. "I wrote to his Lordship requiring an explanation of this remarkable proceeding . . . I received in return a letter stating that, on finding the picture too large to place in his safe, the owner had cut out what he considered to be the most important part, that is the head . . . As for the remainder, it had been sent back...
What worried His Lordship most was how to find the "right natural leaders" in what he called an "economically flattened" society. "In the old days," he said, "when individual wealth could pass on to one's children, much of the leadership of the country was determined automatically. Just from where, in our classless collection of men & women, leadership will come ... I do not know...
...Delighted." Nationalist feeling was running high in favor of John MacCormick. But in the first stages of the campaign, when Douglas Fairbanks magnanimously withdrew in favor of Lord Inverchapel ("I substantially share his views . . ."), it seemed as if his lordship might run away with the votes...
...winning Cadets made 461 birds and led Harvard; Babson, which scored 423 points; and West Point and Crimson second teams which also competed. The Yale team, also scheduled to compete, was disqualified because only three men out of the five-man team showed up at Lordship, Connecticut, where the meet was held...