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Queen Mary has not yet dined with the King and Mrs. Simpson, but the Prime Minister and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and Colonel and Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh have. In those circumstances, socialite Britons assumed and freely said last week in Mayfair that, as in the case of Ethiopia, British public opinion is now in course of a great change, and soon the comings and goings of Mrs. Simpson will be a popular topic in the popular press...
Queen Victoria's onetime page boy, Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, who today is the Socialist Baron Ponsonby, thundered at a Quaker meeting in London last week demands for the arrest of British War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper. Reason: Mr. Duff Cooper said fortnight ago that the European situation is "far more critical today than in 1914" (TIME, June 22). Cried Lord Ponsonby: "He should be arrested as a deliberate, dangerous and disgraceful scaremonger! He has shown himself to be a halfwit. The only fit place for him is Broadmoor! [asylum for the criminally insane...
Deposited to the account of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh in Manhattan were $14,665 in gold notes-residue of the $50,000 ransom he paid to Bruno Richard Hauptmann...
Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Maud Alice, Lady Cunard, birdlike blonde widow of fox-hunting Sir Bache Cunard. The daughter of the late E. F. Burke of New York and known to Mayfair as '"Emerald," Lady Cunard is the mother of exotic Nancy Cunard, whose fondness for Negroes as dancing partners has caused many a raised eyebrow in London and New York...
Died. Ferdinand William Roebling Jr., 57, bridge engineer, president of John A. Roebling Sons, grandson of John Augustus Roebling, who designed and began the Brooklyn Bridge; in Manhattan...