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...session ended with only a rear guard of 58 (out of 245) M.P.s in attendance, only 28 (out of 90) Senators. One minute before the automatic adjournment time of 11 p.m., the Speaker of the House had ordered the clock stopped. For the next hour and 14 minutes the session continued, with the Commons shouting approval of one appropriation after another until the total passed an estimated $200,000,000. Prime Minister King sat drumming his desk impatiently. Finally it was over. M.P.s whooped, threw copies of Hansard in the air, like schoolboys beginning their summer vacation...
Expediting the book lines, which last year moved with agonizing slowness, is an important feature of the renovations. As many students will recall, the first floor rear, regular book department was entirely inadequate both in September and February as a result of the huge influx of veterans...
Competing with the aircraft motors, on the guest speakers' platform, beginning at 8:15 o'clock, will be Lieutenant-Governor Arthur W. Coolidge; Linus Towers, executive vice president of the Yankee Network; Rear-Admiral Morton Dayo; Major General Horace McBridge; S. Murray Forbes, Wellesley trustoo; and star Jane Cowl...
...Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, No. 1 polar explorer of the past two decades, prepared at 58 to retire from the Navy. He had a new job awaiting him as a director of a South Carolina cotton textile firm...
...finally satisfied that Preston Tucker was telling the truth about his financing. So last week it withdrew its stop order and allowed Tucker to float $20 million worth of stock to finance the production of his rear-engined automobiles (TIME, June 23). The Commission had no choice; it cannot bar anyone from selling the stock as long as the truth is told about the issue...