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...triumvirate which British newspapers have called "The Busy B's''?Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and Australia's former Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce. Down the table were former Premier Joseph Gordon Coates of New Zealand, Sir Atul Chatterjee of India, Premiers Frederick Charles Alderdice of Newfoundland. Howard Unwin Moffat of Southern Rhodesia, Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga of South Africa and Vice President Sean Thomas O'Kelly of the Irish Free State. Before them were twelve bundles of closely-typewritten paper representing twelve bilateral trade agreements over a five-year trial period?the result of four weeks of haggling and scratching...
...Union of South Africa, on the West by the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland and on the North (of course) by Northern Rhodesia which is a non-self-governing-colony without a parliament or premier. Proud indeed are Southern Rhodesians of their Parliament and of hardy, pioneering Premier Howard Unwin Moffat, their Chief Delegate last week at the Ottawa Conference...
...beadle drew himself up with great pride, and said, "I invented it. ... We name our foundlings in alphabetical order. The last was a S,-Swubble, I named him. This was a T,-Twist, I named him. The next one as comes will be Unwin and the next Zwilkins...
...display also is "Unwin's annual" of 1896, the issue in which "Markheim" first appeared. Seven letters concerning "Markheim", its production, its naming, and its sale, which were written by Stevenson to the publishers, are of especial interest...
Foreign delegates to the International Planning Conference which met last week in New York refused to go into ecstasies over the greatest collection of tall buildings in the world. One of them Dr. Raymond Unwin of England, even dared to call it "congested impotence". With eyes unprejudiced by the American axiom that the biggest thing must necessarily be the best, these men looked into the future and recoiled at the thought of fifty-story apartment houses so thickly set that the people will have to take turns walking on the street. They believe the solution lies in "satellite" cities, garden...