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Professor M. O. Hudson, Bemis Professor of Law in the University, will sail for Europe today on the Samaria. His immediate destination will be Dublin, where he will be the guest of the League of Nations Society of Ireland...
They sailed for Ireland. They went to set up, in the U. S. consulates of the Irish Free State, immigration inspection stations where full inspection, including medical examination, will be given before immigrant visas are issued...
...Field Marshal in 1913, he commanded Britain's first expeditionary force. In 1915, he retired in favor of Sir Douglas Haig, returned to England, assumed command of the vast armies stationed in Britain. He was made a viscount, chose the name of Ypres, accepted the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland and held that position until 1921, when he retired from official life, receiving from the King the title of Earl...
...white flannel trouserings, shirted with linen, shod with spikes, a tall, tanned, hirsute nobleman bounded about a tennis court in Vienna. He was Count Ludwig Salm-Hoogstraten, playing K. A. Meldon of Ireland in the Davis Cup Tournament. Undaunted by losing the first two sets, 8-10, 4-6, the Count stroked his ball with reckless brilliance, accompanying every stroke with a volley of rough pleasantries. When Herr Quidenius, President of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, arrived, late, flustered, to take his seat, the Count implored him to leave. "Why must you come to spoil my luck?" he yelled. Herr...
...Wellington, capital of far-off New Zealand, Death came to William Ferguson Massey, for close on 13 years Prime Minister. He was a laughing man-one of the most genial that ever entered the public life of that Dominion. Mr. Massey was born at Limavady, County Derry, Ireland, 69 years ago; and at the age of 14 went to rejoin his parents in New Zealand, where they had moved eight years before. The embryo statesman became a farmer and, more to the point, a prosperous farmer. He entered Parliament in 1894, the next year becoming Chief Opposition Whip, a position...