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Died. Lord William Robert Wellesley Peel, 70, famed British Conservative, twice (1922-24, 1928-29) Secretary of State for India; in Petersfield. England. Earl Peel was a grandson of Sir Robert Peel, Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister, who founded the London Police force (named after him ''bobbies"). In the House of Commons Earl Peel was called "Never-merry" Peel because "his disposition ... is not precisely sweet." This year, he was Chairman of the Royal Commission on Palestine that sourly recommended partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews...
Regarding the League against War and Fascism, which sponsored the parade in which the ambulance was used, Dorgan offered to prove to the students of the college that it was nothing more than a communist organization. "Why," he said, "Earl Browder is its vice-president...
...built midget cars to race around the Junior College Stadium, but midget racing as a recognized U. S. sport is less than five years old. In 1932 a field of eight midgets raced 20 laps around the football field of Los Angeles' Loyola High School. In 1934 Oilman Earl Gilmore built a stadium for midgets at a cost of $134,000. The Gilmore track was soon drawing crowds as large as 9,000, and shortly thereafter a onetime Hearst cameraman named Norman Alley opened a track in Chicago. Although Promoter Alley at first claimed that there was no money...
Steve Donoghue rode to his smoothest Derby victory. When he won again the next year with Ben Irish's 100-to-15 shot Papyrus, he and his mount were sent to the U. S. to race against that year's Kentucky Derby winner, Zev, with famed Earl Sande up. Donoghue and Papyrus lost the race and Mr. Irish lost the $100,000 purse...
...doctors have replaced two of last year's staff. Dr. Neil L. Crone will take the place of Dr. John Cass at the Law School and Dr. Andrez W. Contratto is succeeding Dr. Earl Chapman...