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...this power was suddenly switched like a high-voltage current into St. George's some weeks ago, the object being to elect one Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter. This inoffensive knight, the irregular Conservative candidate, was not originally the presslords' mannikin. He entered the lists at St. George's supported by a dignified group of manufacturers who wanted to air the issue of high protective tariffs v. low protective tariff or "safeguarding." Sir Ernest Petter was to advocate high tariffs, and the regular Conservative candidate. Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, husband of beauteous Lady Diana Manners, would of course support "safeguarding...
...Petter's Bombshell. With a single blow of his hard Canadian fist, Baron Beaverbrook shattered the idyllic calm of poor Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter. Sir Ernest was told that he could either get up on his feet and fight the presslords' battle against Stanley Baldwin or they would smash his candidacy by putting up a third Conservative candidate. What could he do but accept the aid of two such very rich...
...Petter '30 and W. T. Wetmore '30 are in charge of the Senior Spread, and F. S. Davis '30 will have the chief direction of the Yard exercises. V. L. Hennessey '30 is in charge of the Stadium exercises, while J. L. Ware '30, treasurer of the Class Day Committee is in charge of the chapel exercises and Sanders Theatre...
...Circolo Italiano last night. They follow: president, James Roosevelt '30, of Hyde Park, New York; first vice-president, Antonio Pasquale Caprio, Jr. '30, of Revere; second vice-president, Joseph Warren Darling '30, of Kew Gardens, L. I., New York; secretary, Robert Boit Gierasch '30, of Brookline; treasurer Petter John White Bove '29, of Schenectady, New York; librarian, Stewart Boal '30, of Winetka, Illinois...
Line (1) "Farmers": showing sylvan motif. "I was an impassioned nutter." said Woolworth, who was also something of a petter...