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...Vere Brabazon, Earl of Bessborough, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George V, his heirs and successors, according to law, so help...
...There are still some Britons - fortunately fewer in number than they were - who believe in racial superiority and in feriority," said the new Viceroy of India. the Earl of Willingdon, last week, just be fore leaving London for New Delhi. "It is not the race of a man that counts." continued the Viceroy. "It is his character. I believe that there should be no racial discrimination at all - either socially or in the selection of men for administrative posts - even the highest." As Viceroy the Earl will receive $93,440 yearly or $1,797 per week; but in Karachi last...
Married. Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 24, Earl of Lincoln, onetime drummer in a London jazzband, son &heir of the 8th Duke of Newcastle, and Mrs. Jean Banks Gimbernat, Manhattan socialite divorced last year in Reno; in Manhattan. In 1902 his father sold the family's most famed possession: the blue Hope diamond, reputed to bring doom upon all who own it (said to have been the property of Queen Marie Antoinette, who was beheaded, it now belongs to the separated Edward Beale McLeans of Washington...
...heart of the young Duke & Earl (he is only 22) undoubtedly beat fast. If the skeleton of the Earl were found to be missing or could not be identified. Pope Pius XI would refuse beatification. But if the skeleton proved to be all right, and if suitable documents were found in the coffin, all would be well. No Howard yearns for further earthly honors; but the young Duke & Earl, educated by priests and brought up by a supremely devout mother, yearns devoutly for the holy joy of having an ancestor beatified...
...13th Earl of Arundel, a Roman Catholic convert, was condemned to decapitation by Protestant Queen Elizabeth on charges of treason but died in the Tower of London before his execution...