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Secrets & Farmers. That the Conference proceedings will be as secret as British ingenuity can make them was frankly stated by the Canadian Government last week. Rich & pious Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett based this course upon the precedent set and stated by the Imperial Conference of 1923. "that at meetings of this nature, where questions of high policy and of the greatest consequence to all parts of the British Commonwealth are surveyed and dealt with, it was of the first importance that the representatives present should feel able to speak among themselves with the utmost freedom and in a spirit...
...Right Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett is a solemn, pious and abstemious citizen. But like New York's James John Walker he has friends always anxious to do him favors. Premier Bennett waits for no summons. Last week, anxious to throttle a "whispering campaign," he hurried before the Canadian Parliament's Committee on National Railways to explain about the rent he is paying for his suite in the Cháteau Laurier...
...Parliament Hill in Ottawa, rich & pious Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian Premier, put through the House of Commons in a single hour and without a single dissenting vote the unanimous report of nine Canadians appointed last February to survey Dominion radio. Briefly the House approved in principle...
...When pious Doukhobors (religious sect) parade naked in protest, British Columbia police pepper their bare flesh with itch powder, spank their bare backs with short lengths of hose. In Thrums last week 200 angry, itching Doukhobors retaliated by squirting water at the peppering police. After furious scuffling 84 male and 33 female Doukhobors were arrested, charged with nudism, face possible jail sentences of three years...
...There are now schools for girls and boys, a college of preachers, the Bishop's house and garden. All of the 67½-acre wooded hill is to be enclosed by a wall with gates dedicated to the twelve Apostles. Ultimately it will represent perhaps $40,000,000 worth of pious enterprise?what Bishop Freeman calls a "powerhouse of religious energy." Of the more than $12,000,000 the Cathedral Foundation lists as assets, $7,000,000 has been raised since Bishop Freeman took office the autumn...