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...Bedaux's preliminary cablegrams from Europe have packed all the punch to be expected from a self-made man who has risen so far and so fast. The Efficiency Expert apparently got the impression over that something distinctly more official was expected than for the Duke of Windsor and President Roosevelt simply to eat a Gridiron Club Dinner and for the Duchess simply to dine at the Women's National Press Club. Out of the Melting Pot meanwhile poured thousands & thousands of letters about the Duke and Duchess from U. S. citizens to the White House, the State...
...atmosphere of German feudalism in which dwells with dignity Der Obergruppenführer Herzog von Coburg. The Herzog or Duke of Coburg is the Head of the Family of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. This was the name of the British Royal Family before it was changed to Windsor in 1917. Therefore last week European socialites were agog to see what kind of dinner the Duke of Coburg would give in Nürnberg for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Would the greatest ladies of the House of Coburg and of German society be invited to meet the Duchess, and would...
...Duchess returned to Paris this week before sailing for Manhattan, were 14 dawn-to-dusk days of the most intensive inspection of German industry and housing (TIME. Oct. 18). Three days of much less strenuous royal inspecting in England last week caused the 43-year-old Duke of Windsor's 34-year-old brother the Duke of Kent to quit for a few days' rest with the words...
Busy taking an interest in housing last week were the King of England (see p. 25), the Duke of Windsor (see col. 1) and Joseph Stalin...
...London socialite, divorced wife of Rt. Hon. William Dudley Ward, onetime (1917-22) Vice-Chamberlain of the King's Household; to Marquis de Casa Maury, Cuban operator of a Mayfair cinemansion; in London. Mrs. Ward for years was the favorite dancing partner and friend of the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales...