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...this autumn. Last week loyal London editors hinted that perhaps Prince George's romance was the real reason for the substitution. They were confident that he will be equal to the strain of marriage. When Prince George got back from South Africa, they recalled, his gruff old uncle, the Earl of Athlone, told him publicly at a banquet: "You had better think of marrying soon...
Admiral of the Fleet David Beatty, Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, who took half his title from the waters where he fought the Battle of Jutland, half from the Leicestershire estate where he rides to hounds, announced that the estate, 13th Century Brooksby Hall, was up for sale...
...Morton L. Schwartz's racehorse Observant : the 65th running of the Travers Stakes, oldest horse race in the U. S.; by four lengths, with Collateral second; at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. C. Earl Leonard Mefford's trotter Lord Jim: the Hambletonian Stake, richest ($26,000) trotting race in the U. S.; by winning two heats out of four, with Muscletone second, and Princess Peg third, with one heat each; at Goshen...
...Forward, George W. Wickersham's Restating the Law and similar works. Passing up such dullish reading, reporters fastened their eyes on other social documents: The Working Woman in the Soviet Union, Why a Workers' Daily Press?, and outpourings like What Every Worker Should Know About NRA by Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party. Opening the last they read: "Push aside the capitalists, open the warehouses, distribute the goods to all who need them. . . . Under Roosevelt and the NRA, the millions of workers are getting less food, less clothing, less shelter, than they did under Hoover...
...kept it up until the King simply had to tell his people how they had made him feel. He spoke to Lord Derby and Lord Derby spoke to Liverpool newshawks and Liverpool newshawks spoke to the world: "At the end of the day the King told his friend the Earl of Derby that he had never experienced such a demonstration of affection in all the 24 years of his reign...