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...Governor General, on the recommendation of the Premier in power when a seat falls vacant. In the past there has been a majority of Conservative Premiers, who the Liberals claim have stuffed the Senate with old-foggyism. They will ask the electorate for power to "end or mend" the Senate. Conservatives will maintain that Solons of the Senate's present calibre would not stoop to campaign for their seats, would abandon the Senate to featherbrains, if not honored as they deserve for life...
Very obviously, the much-heralded 1925 cotton crop has been a keen disappointment, owing mainly to the Texas drought. But consumption is on the mend, and losses from the boll weevil have this year apparently run second in importance to losses caused by the weather...
After elections, the congress concluded its session. Louis Lipsky* of Manhattan was chosen Chairman of the Executive Board for the fifth time. Other elections were expected to mend all differences-especially the elections of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of Manhattan, Dr. Harry Friedenwald of Baltimore and Judge Julian W. Mack of Chicago, who caused a breach in the Zionist ranks at the Cleveland Congress of 1921 over the establishment of the Palestine Foundation Fund as the principal financial agency of the movement. The eleventh annual Hadassah (women's Zionist organization) convention also came to a close in Washington...
Princeton, N. J., May 27.--Howard, the Crimson shortstop who was injured in the eye by a batted ball here last week, is resting comfortably at the Infirmary and is reported to be rapidly on the mend. He has improved greatly since he was hurt, and is expected to return to Cambridge today...
...been sent to Cape Colony to seek a solution of the grave difficulties with the Boer republics. Yet in speech he showed himself an Imperialist and did not mend matters by referring to the South African British as "helots." He foresaw war with the Boers, undoubtedly hastened its advent, which he believed inevitable. He stayed in South Africa throughout the South African War (1899-1902), was rewarded for his services by a viscounty and the Governorship of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony...