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...PREFACE TO DEATH-Fred Rother-mell-Little, Brown...
...subordinate, onetime member of Northcliffe's board of propaganda, admires his late great master but tells some surprising things about him. Says he: Northcliffe supplied most of the ideas for his news papers but his rash expenditures had to be constantly checked by his more businesslike brother (now Viscount Rother-mere). Fyfe thinks Northcliffe made a mistake when he twice refused Lloyd George's offer of a cabinet post, thinks Northcliffe realized it too late when he saw there was no chance of getting the Premiership, thinks the disappointment may have helped addle Northcliffe's brains...
...fertile of brain, thought up the scheme which he and Viscount Rother mere lay on British breakfast tables every morning as the sole panacea which can save the Empire from fiscal ruin (TIME, Dec. 2). Ingeniously they call it "Empire Free Trade" or "E. F. T.," because Englishmen are free traders by tradition. But their E. F. T. consists of two inseparable projects: first abolish tariffs among the lands of the British Empire; second, put a high tariff on anything entering the Empire from anywhere else. Plainly the scheme should be labeled "Empire Free Trade plus Imperial Tariffs...
...score in detail: PAWTUCKET. McDonald, c. W. Taylor b. F. Taylor, 23 Falconer, b. F. Taylor, 1 McCall, b. Tingley, 4 Andrew Meiklejohn, b. F. Taylor, 6 Branham, b. Carter, 1 Fraser, b. Tingley, 10 Alexander Meiklejohn, b. Tingley, 7 Rother, c. Trout b. Tingley, 3 Grace, b. Tingley, 2 Dexter, not out, 4 Smith, b. Tingley, 0 Extras, 14 Total, 75 HARVARD. Trout, b. Branham, 16 Rothermel, c. Smith b. Branham, 2 CArter, b. Branham, 0 W. Taylor, not out, 17 F. Taylor, c. Falconer b. Branham, 15 Trainer, b. Branham, 0 Tingley, b. Rothery, 2 Stork, b. Rothery...
Earned run, Lafayette; two base hit, Howland; three base hit, Howland; base on balls, Trafford, Alward, Rother, Wells, Baxter, Cake, Rowan; base on errors, Harvard 4, Lafayette 2; struck out, Rother, Wells; Mackey, Rowan, Ikler, Linn, Frothingham (2), Upton; passed balls, March, Upton; wild pitch, Baxter; double plays, Linn-Trafford, Baxter-March-Coke-Wells-Rother; flies caught, Harvard 3, Lafayette 7; foul caught, Lafayette; out on bases, Harvard 4, Lafayette 4; left on bases, Harvard 8, Lafayette 7; time 2hrs. 5min.; umpires, Dumont of Lafayette and Bates...