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What this actually meant appeared when Secretary for India Wedgewood Benn told the House of Commons that the Cabinet was not attempting conciliation with St. Gandhi or other leaders of the Indian struggle for self-government...
...every great civilization has brought its pottery to an artistic level commensurate with its painting, sculpture, architecture. The Grecian urn, hymned by Poet Keats has become symbolic of rare beauty. Wedgewood is a name which added lustre to the reign of George...
...British Crown?" Specifically this question was asked, in a large and lofty way, by several M. P.'s of each British party-Conservative, Liberal and Laborite-who assembled last week in London to found the Seventh Dominion League. Sat, as chairman of the meeting, Colonel Josiah Wedgewood, M. P. (Labor), flanked by Lieutenant-Commander Joseph Kenworthy, M. P. (a Liberal until 1926, now a Laborite), and by Lord Hartington, M. P. (Conservative), heir of the 9th Duke of Devonshire (Conservative), who fought for the Empire in Egypt, at the Dardanelles and in France...
...railroaders dared but admire, not imitate, the action of British railroaders who now are buying control of all motor bus lines which conflict with their traffic. In England municipalities own most of the city, suburban and even interurban bus lines. With their authorities, Sir Josiah Stamp and Sir Ralph Wedgewood, able, persuasive financiers both, have had on the whole successful parleys. As for the U. S., the New England railroads have done most to absorb or create bus lines. The severest railroad-bus competition is along the Pacific Coast...
...pleased was President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University on being shown some broken 100-year-old dinner plates dug up in the backyard of University Hall, that he ordered the Wedgewood Potteries of Staffordshire, England, to manufacture 42,000 old-fashioned plates bearing pictures of new Harvard buildings. Many of these plates will be sold to loyal sons of John Harvard...