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...gold-frogged gown and many-curled wig, the Right Honorable Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, "possessor," according to Jeremy Bentham, "of a multitude of heterogeneous scraps of power too various to be enumerated," ruled some months ago that the section of Canada's constitution forbidding women from holding legislative office was a "completely outmoded relic of medieval civilization." Last week the appointment of Mrs. Norman MacKay Wilson, first woman ever to serve in the Canadian Senate, was announced by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and her appointment officially approved by Governor-General Viscount Willingdon...
Chairman Owen D. Young of General Electric Co., President of the Board of Trustees of St. Lawrence University (Canton, N. Y.), executive committeeman of International General Education Board, possessor of 15 honorary degrees, was nominated for election to the New York State Board of Regents (educational) in the Legislature. He was defeated by George H. Bond, lawyer and trustee of Syracuse University. Reason: Mr. Young is a Democrat...
...invented a device, whereby his pretty niece's 1910 model car can be propelled very reasonably on kerosene, once it has been started on the more expensive gasoline. He has had his trousers turned three times. He shares his newspaper with a neighbor. And yet he is the possessor of one of the Hub's hidden fortunes. An exaggerated caricature? Of course, but very good reading...
Shorter hours, longer pay, group protection, a fixed scale of wages to abolish discriminatory employment-such were the keynotes of a cry for the unionization of the U. S. aviation industry sounded last week by Dale ("Red") Jackson, part-possessor of the world's unofficial endurance refueling record (TIME. Aug. 12). With L. H. Atkinson, until recently sub-executive for Universal Air Lines, he sent out the first of 140,000 letters to pilots, mechanics, apprentices and student flyers to get them to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They seek to promote brotherly fellowship, make working conditions...
Harvard men he characterized as 'less glowing and gregarious' than Yale men. Commenting on a certain student from a standard Boston family, he said, 'He appears to be the possessor of but two adjectives, "bully" and "rotten."' When I asked him about X's Class Day oration, he answered, 'Robust commonplace.' Of a graduate who had written somewhat irresponsibly about Harvard, he observed, 'He is not a scientific person.' Of the place to which women were relegated when waiting for books in the University Library, he said, 'A pen is provided for them...