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...Minister of Agriculture in the present Cabinet, he has had wide experience in states-craft if not a scintillant career. In India his experience and his aristocratic background will well become the Viceregal Lodge at Delhi. Meanwhile historians turned, to contemplate the retiring Viceroy; prepared to write the Earl of Reading down as one who has dominated India with tactful potency since...
They recalled that to the name of Rufus Daniel Isaacs he added the style of Baron, Viscount and Earl, during the War. And though his mother was born "a simple Cohen," and his father was "a merchant in the City of London," he himself became Lord Chief Justice of England as early as 1913. As President of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U. S. in 1915, Special Envoy thither in 1917, and High Commissioner and Special Ambassador to the U. S. later in that year, he well earned the titles subsequently conferred upon him by carrying...
Michael Scarlett, later the Earl of Dunbury and title character of the new novel, is set in a story of Elizabethan life in London. The tale is racy and dramatic and tells of Scarlett's adventures with Nashe and Marlowe at a great English university and subsequently amid the feuds and brawls which characterized London life at that period...
...Earl of Birkenhead...
...wing to prevent a cold-clogged oil tank from bursting, the joint feat of changing three 900-lb. Liberty motors with improvised equipment, and the readiness of all the men to fly over Ellesmere Land "where a forced landing meant 'curtains' [i. e. dropped curtains-Death]." Pilot Earl Reber of the NA-3, despite an attack of stomach ulcers that kept him on a milk diet for weeks, was credited with the most miles flown. Reber described the foggy flying weather as "dirtiest ever...