Word: rounded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Indian Round Table Conference struggled on in London last week, snagged on the question of future representation of Hindu and Moslem minorities in Indian Provincial legislatures, a question which Britons demand be settled before any definite promise of Dominion status is given. Far more important was the appointment of a new Viceroy for India: Free man Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, Baron Willingdon of Ratton, at present Governor General of Canada. Latest previous royal representative to be appointed was the native-born Gover nor General of Australia, Rt. Hon. Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, shoved into power by Australia's Labor...
...Colman buying a wirehaired fox terrier; arguing with his father, the irascible Lord Leeland (Father: "Now you're blaming me for bringing you into the world." Son: "I should be mortified for your sake if I had to blame anyone else.") ; taking Loretta Young on a merry-go-round; accepting the ?5,000 his fiancee hands him in the nasty belief that he loved her for her money. Colman is the prodigal younger son of a noble family. He comes home, attracts to himself a girl who was supposed to marry a Russian grand duke, and after difficulties weds...
...Thomas Gossett, Manhattan lawyer in the employ of Hughes, Schurman. & Dwight; at the Hughes home in Washington, D. C. Married. Clarenore Stinnes, 29, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes. German coal, iron, steel, shipping & press tycoon; and Axel Soderstrom, 36, Swedish cinema producer, her companion last year on a round-the-world-motor trip; in London. Married. John Ringling art collector, railroad man, head of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, last of the five brothers; and a Mrs. Emily Haag Buck of Manhattan; in Jersey City. Best man: President Thomas Nesbitt McCarter of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Appointed...
...Sardinias), flashy Cuban Negro. With an eye for an evening's entertainment and the support of the Italian vote at the next election. Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut was at the ringside rooting for Battalino and so was Mayor Walter Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe by fighting only at catchweights, Battalino ran into one of Chocolate's short, clean punches, went down for a count of eight, tottered when he arose, apparently hopelessly beaten. But he lasted...
Tennessee's most potent publisher, one of her most potent personalities is big, athletic, round-faced Colonel Luke Lea. At 51 he is already wrapped in a cocoon of legend: the man who, at 32, was the youngest U. S. Senator ever to sit legally; who, a fighting colonel of field artillery, nearly completed an attempt to kidnap the Kaiser from a castle in Holland as a Christmas gift to President Wilson. With Banker-Promoter Rogers Clark Caldwell, he bought the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Appeal (evening) for $3,600,000 in 1927, the Knoxville Journal...