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Lady Astor, who used to be Nancy Langhorne of Virginia, came over from England for the occasion. There was more than social color in her visit. Lady Astor, as every one knows, is a politician. She was England's first lady of Parliament. Her sister, Irene Langhorne (Mrs. Charles Dana) Gibson, has been striving to reinstate the Democracy through the instrumentality of the Brown Derby, bold modern symbol of the Jefferson ethos. Though she was far too discreet to lend herself overtly to the Smith campaign, Lady Astor became part and parcel of one of the strangest Presidential years...
...Tillett, originally a bricklayer, progressed through shoemaking and sailoring to become General Secretary of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union, from its inception in 1887 until 1922. Latterly, as a Member of Parliament and lecturer, he has twice toured the Empire, and repeatedly visited the U. S. and Soviet Russia. The title of his favorite lecture, Christ and Labor! might be called the slogan wherewith hard-bitten "Ben" Tillett has sold himself to pious toilers' everywhere...
Delegates representing His Majesty's least devoted and most unsympathetic subjects, in Dalmatia and Croatia, met at Zagreb, last week, declared themselves to be an independent Parliament, and announced that Croatia-Dalmatia will hereafter conduct its internal affairs without regard to the Royal Government at Belgrade, while allowing the Crown to represent Croatia-Dalmatia in foreign affairs...
...course the Royal Government will continue to deny Croatia-Dalmatia any such status de jure, but every year these two irrepressibly self-reliant provinces approach nearer to a de facto "dominion status." At present Croats and Dalmatians haughtily refuse to elect representatives of themselves in the Royal Parliament at Belgrade...
Liberals began their campaign, last week, coincidentally with Conservatives. Said Mr. David Lloyd George, in Welsh, to an audience at Llangefni, Wales: "You have just heard me speak in support of my daughter Megan, who has been selected as the prospective Liberal candidate for Parliament from this division. . . . I am supporting her candidacy not because she is my daughter but because she is the choice of the party. . . . I cannot be responsible for anything she may say or do if elected...