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...natural to impose the equivalent of a modern tariff or embargo as to breathe. It seems so still to a majority of statesmen. That Great Britain in the igth Century took another line was due to such bold spirits as Thinker Adam Smith, Propagandist Richard Cobden, Pioneer Sir Robert Peel, Statesman William Ewart Gladstone, and to Geography...
From a group of over 30 theses contributed last year by candidates for honors in English. "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw" by H. A. Brinser '31, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and "The Creed of a Victorian Pagan" by Robert Peel '31, of Brookline, were honored by publication. These theses were chosen by a committee composed of Professors P. W. Souers, F. W. C. Hersey and A. C. Sprague '19, of the Department of English. Their publication was made possible by a fund established by the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers...
...gargantuan orange-peel doors of the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron slid open one sunny afternoon last week and the biggest dirigible ever built moved slowly out, stern first, pushed by the mobile stub mooring-mast at her bow. For this moment of ideal weather officials of Navy and Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. had waited for days. The low hills which make a natural amphitheatre of Akron's municipal airport were black with automobiles and spectators. The Akron...
Privy SeaL The only vacancy in the Cabinet proper, the post of Lord Privy Seal, which some observers had believed was being saved for David Lloyd George, was awarded last week to the Conservative Earl Peel. Ramsay MacDonald's son Malcolm was made Under Secretary for the Dominions and Colonies. David Lloyd George's son, Gwilym, was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade...
Even so the Byng report and the Clydesdale holdup were enough for police chiefs to plan a revolutionary move, the arming of London's bobbies. Ever since their organizer, Sir Robert Peel, lent his nickname to the London Police, they have carried nothing more formidable than a short wooden truncheon. Last week the tradition of the incorruptible, unarmed British policeman (like the tradition of the invulnerable Bank of England) trembled in the balance. Twenty-five bobbies were up on charges of accepting bribes from publicans, bookmakers, and tradespeople...