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...days age a group of American Legionnaires, wearing their Legion caps, and led by members of the local constabulary, broke up a meeting which was about to he addressed by Earl Browder, beating up those who resisted them with clubs and pistol-butts. According to newspaper reports, the attack was made following a cry of "All red-blooded Americans, come...
...Foreign Office "demands": 1) that the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain be again convened and 2) that Britain and France "blockade" Portugal to prevent that country-which does not recognize the Soviet Union-from transshipping arms to the Spanish Whites. The exceedingly blue-blooded and frosty Earl of Plymouth, an Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, placed the tips of his white fingers together and murmured absolute refusal...
...After two weeks of Indiana University's police-training course, sheepish Student Robert Forrester, 17, of Clinton, Okla., confessed to police that he had robbed the homes of Professor Melvin Lewis, Associate Professor Earl C. Hayes, 15 other Bloomington citizens...
...gurgled at his sugar cake with one candle. His mother last week canceled all social engagements for the winter, thus intimating to the pleased British populace that she is expecting a second child. ¶Queen Mary's amiable brother Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone and onetime Governor General of the Union of South Africa, added to the gaiety of the annual Lorfdon Antique Dealers' Fair by remarking publicly of his popular wife Princess Alice: "I always have the greatest difficulty in getting her away from the window of an art dealer...
...puzzle to Europe's aristocratic race drivers, they were a vexing riddle to Roosevelt Race way. Accustomed to building up bogus socialites, the Raceway's energetic press agents betrayed their lack of practice in dealing with real ones by describing Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, onetime Member of Parliament and Aide-de-camp to the late George V, with redundant emphasis, as "Lord" Earl Howe. Inheritor of a fabulous for tune for which a legal dispute that is still going on was sufficiently sensational a century ago to inspire Charles Dickens to write Bleak House...