Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handshake his people's allies (as his father did in World War I), of Great Britain's George VI. His Majesty, who served with the R. A. F. in 1918 after shifting over from the Royal Navy, arrived in France by destroyer, accompanied by his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, who has the title of B. E. F.'s chief liaison officer with rank of Major General. Length of the royal visit was not announced...
...Today almost every French woman has her own personal family war work to do because she has a brother, fiance, husband, father or uncle in the Army who needs cigarets, socks, a sweater, favorite articles of food, regular letters of affectionate encouragement and such efforts as she can make toward attending to his neglected affairs. Thousands of French women are holding their husbands' jobs today as bus conductors, mail carriers, taxi drivers, and in stores and factories...
Died. Lorin Wright, 77, little-known elder brother of the famed Orville and the late Wilbur Wright, business genius for his plane-brained brothers in their early manufacturing days; after long illness; in Dayton, Ohio...
...indictment for mob assault, which might have jailed the trio for ten years each. To a court jampacked with Fauquier (pronounced faw´-kee-a) County hunt society, a Fauquier County jury declared the act a misdemeanor, ruled that their fun would cost the defendants $500 (Ian Montgomery, $300; Brother Colin Montgomery, 28, $150; Alex Calvert, 21, $50). Smart Defense Attorney Aubrey G. Weaver spoke for the hunting set when he declaimed that the boys had done "what any red-blooded Virginian* would have done . . ." And that "these young men have rendered a public service to this community...
...club-footed constable of the Tower) how to satisfy an active homicidal mania by murdering the four candidates who are preventing Duke Richard from becoming King Richard III of England. By the time Mord and Richard have killed Henry VI, the Duke of Clarence, Edward V and his brother, they are killed themselves at the battle of Bosworth...