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...Douglas Straight, onetime Inspector General of Police in India, and the noted London barrister, Harry Higgins, testified that Sir Basil had often expressed to them his intention of going to Hyde Park to seek material for his book. The Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, Chairman of the Midland Bank and onetime (1911-15) Home Secretary, joined with Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Hall in testifying to the "irreproachable character of Sir Basil...
...critical of TIME, but having come from California all the way across this continent for the sole pur pose of standing for a few brief moments before those nine robed and worthy succes sors of John Marshall, and having months ago perused with interest your articles concerning Mr. Justice McKenna's retirement and the elevation of Mr. Justice Stone to the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I have just read with an amazement not unmingled with sorrow the advertisement of TIME itself on Page 33 of your issue...
...Original Subscriber Wheat complains listed the names of the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court and mentioned the fact that their troubles-and the vicissitudes of the Constitution-are recorded in TIME. Due to ignorance by a member of the Promotion Department, the name of Mr. Associate Justice McKenna was listed; Mr. Stone, as all TIME readers know, was appointed last February to take Mr. McKenna's place...
...fine morning the Presidential yacht, Mayflower, put to sea without her master or mistress aboard. Instead there were Edward T. Clark, the President's private secretary; Ellen Peck, secretary to Mr. Clark; Mrs. Clark; E. W. Smithers, the White House telegraphist; Pat McKenna, Cerberus of the White House office, friend of all dignitaries for the last 20 years; Erwin Geisser, the President's stenographer; Katherine Gwynn, Mrs. Coolidge's maid; John May, White House butler, valet ad interim to the President; Julia Jongbloet, cook, successor to the famed Martha M. Mulvey; Rob Roy, collie; and Paul...
...concomitant debates were marked by a bitter clash between Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill and Mr. Snowden. Mr. Churchill declared that there was too much fuss being made about the McKenna duties (TIME, May 11), and that all he sought to do was to revert to the status quo ante and to brand Mr. Snowden's repeal of those duties (TIME, May 12, 1924) as a purely partisan action. Mr. Snowden retorted: "I can well understand that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is incapable of understanding that any person can be moved by honest political convictions." (Torrents...