Word: duke
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Canada. Once more the press was ready with a plethora of names. For the time being it seemed unlikely that Canada would follow Australia, insist on a native Governor. Strangest suggestion was the converted Boer, onetime South African Prime Minister General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Most likely: either the Duke of York (it is known that King George is anxious for the duke to have administrative training as a possible heir to the throne) or Queen Mary's brother the Earl of Athlone, about to return to Britain after a successful term as Governor General of South Africa...
...merry-go-round; accepting the ?5,000 his fiancee hands him in the nasty belief that he loved her for her money. Colman is the prodigal younger son of a noble family. He comes home, attracts to himself a girl who was supposed to marry a Russian grand duke, and after difficulties weds her. The whole thing would be much better if it were faster and shorter but it is good entertainment as it stands. Best shot: the crowd going back to London after the Derby...
...Carolina's "lame duck" Senator Simmons, helped lead the 1928 anti-Smith movement which turned his State Republican. Senate Democrats doubted his Democracy, sought to question him on his 1930 vote. Another charge against Commissioner McNinch-which he loudly denied-was that he had covert connections with the Duke power interests and from them secured political funds, still unaccounted for, with which to combat the Brown Derby. Because of the power-&-politics nexus, all five Commissioners were ordered to appear this week before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to undergo a grilling. One prime question to be asked each...
...critics flay him and in Tennessee he has found a hunting paradise-natural panel fences, no wire, springy turf-which he has organized efficiently with himself as Master of Fox Hounds. Last spring the Grasslands group got going with an inaugural steeplechase for a cup put up by the Duke of Beaufort. Last week they held their great promised event-a steeplechase modeled on the English Grand National at Aintrée. The King of Spain had donated a cup for it and the Grasslands group added $5,000 prize money. Partly the race was a promotion scheme to attract...
...long gains. Navy 26, Penn 0. A 76-yd. march in the last three minutes almost brought New York University a tie in their post-season charity game, but Colgate blocked the kick. Colgate 7, N. Y. U. 6. North Carolina's punting quarterback, Johnny Branch, held Duke at bay, but that was not all his team had to do. The scoreless tie played in the mud gave Duke the State championship, since North Carolina had been beaten by Davidson. Although outrushed by eleven first downs to seven, a Tom-Thumb team from Rice amazed a crowd in Houston...