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...very day of this Papal blast a self-appointed commission to investigate Spain's atrocities reached Madrid. Led by the 5th Earl of Listowel, the investigators consisted of M. Charles Bourthomieux of the French Court of Appeals. Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, a pert proletarian and onetime British Labor M. P., and Lord Listowel's secretary, a Czech named Katz...
...Britain's great mathematicians is a bony, bulge-browed Peer named Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell of Kingston Russell, Viscount Amberley of Amberley & Ardsalla. He is also famed as a philosopher, logician, pacifist, historian, author, lecturer. But it is doubtful if the name of Bertrand Russell would ever have become a household word in English-speaking lands had not the blue-blooded Earl and his free-thinking second wife set out some years ago to educate the world in what they considered the ways of sexual happiness. Now familiar to every schoolgirl, their views once more made news...
...Received into their House the King's youngest son Prince George, technically a "commoner" until he took his seat last week. Loudly the Clerk read the new peer's letters patent from George V, creating Prince George "Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews and Baron Downpatrick...
...Growing apace, meantime, was the renown of the books & manuscripts he was carefully assembling. In 1923 he presented them to the University of Michigan (which had graduated him in 1882) and threw in a graceful white building to house them. The collection includes 50,000 documents of the Earl of Shelburne, British Prime Minister at the end of the American revolution; 25,000 documents and 350 hand-made maps of Sir Henry Clinton comprising the actual British Headquarters Papers; 15 folio manuscript volumes of Lord Germain, British Colonial Secretary; and the official files of General Thomas Gage, British Commander...
...certainly he has heard of them if he reads only the newspapers. There are plenty of persons who know far too much about their immediate difficulties and are busily enlisting the support of their neighbors for various plans to end poverty, sedition, war, or profits. From Ogden Mills to Earl Bowder the contemporary scene is peppered with eloquent men on soap boxes. It might seem that a certain intellectual perspective and depth of thought rather than an opinionated familiarity with the facts would supply the better approach to the problems of the century...