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...Simpson, 54, president of Marshall Field & Co. since 1923, to be director of the New York Central R. R.; to fill directorate left by the late Chauncey M. Depew, who died two months ago (TIME, April 16). Only one other Chicagoan has sat on this board-the late James Berwick Forgan, president of the First National Bank of Chicago...
This new edition of one of the greatest of all American books is remarkable for the illustrations in wood-cut by Mr. Eric Fitch Daglish. The New Statesman (London) says of him "since Berwick died, in 1812, there have been no wood-cuts of birds produced in this country which are fit to be compared for skill and faithfulness to the work, of Mr. Daglish." Edition limited to 500 copies for America...
Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duque de Alba, 10th Duke of Berwick, descendant (as his name suggests) of an illegitimate son of King James II, eleven times a Grandee of Spain, and through the Larreategui family a descendant of Christopher Columbus: "As an intimate of His Most Catholic Majesty King Alfonso XIII of Spain, I have repeatedly caused newsgatherers to draw from my remarks the inference that His Majesty will soon visit the U. S. Always these reports have been denied; but last week I became so expansive that correspondents left my presence with the impression that His Majesty intends...
Born. To Jacobo, 10th Duke of Berwick, 17th Duke of Alba, Senator in the Spanish Cortes, 48, and Maria del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Marquesa de San Vicente, 26, a daughter; at Madrid. The Duke is commonly referred to as the highest grandee in Spain. The retiring U. S. Ambassador to Spain, Mr. Moore, habitually addressed him not as "Jacobo" but as "Jimmy...
...present Duke is a descendant of another famous soldier, the Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of James II of England, whose title he still possesses, being the tenth Duke. The first Duke of Berwick saw service under his father and later under Louis XIV of France. Montesquieu in his eloge cites that so great was his courage and ability that all parties were anxious to have him on their side. Before his death, he became a French subject and a Marshal of France...