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...Canada is 35 times as large as New Zealand," said New Zealand's Coates. "and let us hope her heart is proportionately generous." His Majesty's Lieu-enant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia, plump, guttural J. W. Fordham Johnson, sped the delegates to their train for Ottawa. Croaked he: "Anything short of success at this Conference might well have unthinkable results...
...Plump, baldish Ralph Leo Richards, half-brother of chubby Vincent Richards, tennis professional, escaped with three cellmates from Eastview Penitentiary, N. Y. where he was serving a one-year term for assaulting a policeman...
...Senator Dickinson presented to the convention its permanent chairman, Representative Bertrand Hollis Snell, Potsdam, N. Y. cheesemaker. Chairman Snell, plump and pink, was escorted to the platform by a delegation of ladies headed by Mrs. Alvin Hert, vice-chairwoman of the National Committee. From the first bang of his gavel, for which was later substituted a bungstarter, it was apparent that stout Mr. Snell had the convention in his round red fist...
Vice President. An early arrival in the city was Mrs. Edward Everett ("Dolly") Gann, looking slightly less plump than usual. As to her brother Charles Curtis' chances of being renominated for the Vice Presidency, she "had not a single doubt." Neither had Secretary of the Treasury Mills, a delegate from New York, who appeared on the scene with the word of the White House on his lips. But ruddy little Chief Counsel James Francis Burke of the national committee, who claimed seniority over anyone at the gathering because he went to the 1892 Minneapolis convention the week after...
Distinctly tabbyish is Edouard Herriot, plump and wavy-haired Mayor of Lyons! whose so-called Radical-Socialist Party won the French Chamber of Deputies election (TIME, May 16). Not the least bit radical. M. Herriot's party decided in caucus last week not to join forces with the mild French Socialists whose support is needed to cement a strong Herriot Cabinet majority. Taking a chance that the Socialists would not seriously oppose him, M. Herriot called by arrangement on new French President Albert Lebrun, was asked to form a Cabinet and produced, 15 hours later, the following safe & sane slate...