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Assuming that Conservative Bennett will be defeated, traditional Canadian politics would turn up as victor the rival Liberal Party's genial boss, onetime Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King who last week was having posters printed with the slogan KING OR CHAOS! Actually the electorate showed signs of splitting to candidates of minor radical parties such as normally would give Canada's old guard Conservatives and Liberals no worries whatever. Ominous was a remark by Liberal Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn, who upset Ontario's entrenched Conservatives and became Premier (TIME, July 2, 1934). On a national electioneering swing...
This incident was related last week at the American Psychological Association convention (see above) by Verne W. Lyon of Chicago's Institute for Juvenile Research, who believed that "emotion detector" would be a better name than "lie detector."* Fluctuations on the graph might reveal "painful complexes" instead of falsehood...
...your article on "Keyboards" (TIME, Aug. 5) you give the cost of the Vertichord $295 to $445. Should have been $395 to $445, f. o. b. factory. I believe such honorable merchants as John Wanamaker (New York & Philadelphia), Lyon & Healy (Chicago), and Sherman, Clay & Co. (San Francisco), and others who sell Vertichord pianos will appreciate a correction. Vertichord is a trade name. There are other makes of the new vertical piano types which sell as low as $295-but not Vertichords...
...pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett long ago announced a "New Deal" (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week his enemies set out to defeat him for being too much like President Roosevelt. Flaying the New Deal shibboleth of Reform-before-Recovery, the Premier's bitter rival, onetime Canadian Premier William Lyon MacKenzie King launched his Liberal Party's electioneering campaign with a radio speech in which he keynoted "Recovery Ahead of Reform...
...French-Canadian boss. In June 1932 the Conservatives did not feel too badly when they failed to oust the Progressive Liberal Government of farmer-radical Manitoba, but since then the Conservative Generalissimo at Ottawa has known nothing but rout after sickening rout. His Liberal rival, onetime Dominion Premier William Lyon...