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...School, onetime President of Northwestern University; at Trenton, N. J. Jurist Rogers, aggressive, forced the "case system" on conservative Yale law-dons, as stumbling old "Kit" Langdell had done to Harvard 25 years before. Died. Gaitan Ardisson, 74, sculptor-adviser to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney; at the Whitney estate, Wheatley Hills, Westbury, L. I. Aged, ill, Sculptor Ardisson clambered wearily up a 100 ft. water tower, leapt. In his pocket was a note, "Mrs. Whitney-you win. Tan-Tan, [his son], tout est atteint [all is accomplished]." Died. William H. Thompson, 75, president of the Thompson Time Stamp...
...John Wheatley (onetime Laborite Minister of Health) : "The Government's slogan seems to be, 'Our class, right or wrong. . . .' The German miners have to work eight hours instead of seven to pay war reparations. If our miners work eight hours to compete with them, the Germans will have to work nine. . . . Who gains, except our ruling class...
...arose from Britishers. The Forest of Dean constituency of Gloucestershire preferred A. A. Purcell, extremist Laborite (or Communist in all but name), to a Liberal candidate. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald and most of the moderate Laborites frowned; for was not Purcell's victory also a victory for John Wheatley, the extremist opponent of Mr. MacDonald, whom Mr. Wheatley fondly hopes one day to oust...
...victory, debate on whether the Party should or should not accept office with a minority in the House of Commons (as was the case with the last Government) assumed a seriousness out of proportion to the imminence of the subject. Ex-Premier MacDonald reserved his judgment. The extremist, John Wheatley, was of the opinion that the Government should not accept office except with an absolute majority of the House...
...deputation organized by Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell's Birth Control Committee conferred with Mr. John Wheatley, Minister of Health for Great Britain. The Committee included representatives of the medical profession, the various organizations favoring birth control, and Mr. H. G. Wells. It urged freedom for maternity centres and public health officials in giving information relative to contraception. In reply the Minister said that a clear distinction must be made between allowing access to knowledge and actually distributing it. He said that public opinion was not so definite as to permit State-aided institutions to do more than to direct...