Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...that Princess Margaret had set her heart on marrying the tall, red-haired Earl of Dalkeith, 26, heir to the well-to-do Scottish Duke of Buccleuch. (The title dates from 1663, when Anne, Countess of Buccleuch, married the Duke of Monmouth, bastard son of Charles II.) Newspaper gossipists spoke well of the Earl's record at Eton, Oxford and in the Royal Navy, observed complacently that "the blood of the Stuarts is to be found in both." But at week's end, Buckingham Palace remained majestically mum. The Earl's only comment...
...Younger brother of Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, descendant of early (1791-96) U.S. Senator George Cabot, who was spoken to by the Lowells, spoke to God, was a friend of Washington, an adviser to Hamilton. -A partner in Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. For news of another partner, see above...
...Perhaps the most dramatic aspect of the situation has been the subjection of the Roman Catholic Church . . . Last year the bishops and their clergymen still spoke their minds in sermons and pastoral letters and circulars. This year they are silent ... The bishops are prisoners under police surveillance . . . About 300 of the clergy are in prison...
...President spoke at a Law School-Harvard Foundation luncheon. Conant said that law students and other graduate students will move into the new living, dining and recreational center next September...
Vera Micheles Dean, authoress and research director of the Foreign Policy Association, New York, led the panel of speakers at Saturday evening's symposium in Agassiz on "1950-A Backward Glance and a Forward Look." Miss Dean spoke of her experiences in the field of foreign relations, its ever increasing importance, and its growing tensions. Four other fields in which women of the Class of 1925 have worked were represented by Mrs. Frank H. Brown, department store work; Mrs. Meredith B. Givens, government; Miss Sybil A. Stone, psychology; and Mrs. Kan Lee, teaching (in China...