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...trouble. An Irish ancestor named Walter Nugent served with other relatives in the Austrian army and was made Baron Nugent of Clonlost by the Emperor Franz Josef in 1859. When the first baron's descendants returned to England, the title was authenticated by a royal warrant signed by Britain's Edward VII in 1908. But with the advent of World War I, Nugent's grand-uncle-like many other holders of Teutonic titles-not only dropped his barony but formally petitioned his King for permission to renounce it. The permission was belatedly granted in 1920, two years...
Died. George Kite, 58, royal chimney sweep, whose firm of Kite & Sons, founded by his grandfather (who swept for Queen Victoria) and continued by his father (who swept for Edward VII), held the royal warrant for sweeping Windsor Castle's 300 chimneys; of pneumonia; in Windsor, England. With a staff of three (including his son, who will continue the family trade), Kite also swept Eton College and the Queen Mother's royal lodge...
Davis quickly began setting the record straight. The Interior Department, he explained, is required by law to make grants on claims with reasonably good ore-producing prospects. On first considering the Al Sarena case, said Davis, he ordered that new assays be taken. They showed sufficient ore content to warrant the grants. Timber rights naturally were included in the grants...
...letter came to us anonymously, but it seemed sufficiently interesting to warrant suspending our rule.--Editor.) --The Boston Herald January...
Among the French Moroccan soldiers captured by the Viet Minh Communists at Dienbienphu last year was a veteran warrant officer named Mohammed el Khabouchi. By the time the Communists let him go, they had taught him to hate his French masters. Last week French officials identified 36-year-old El Khabouchi as the commander of a thousand Berber rebels lurking in Morocco's Rif Mountains. He hides out in the Spanish Moroccan hamlet of Talamrhecht, and on occasion sneaks across the border to shoot up his old home town of Tizi Ouzli, or to ambush passing convoys. El Khabouchi...