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...American Airways and Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. He has two children by his first wife, Marie Norton, whose No. 2 husband is Poloist William Averell Harriman. His present wife, the former Gwladys Hopkins of Philadelphia, is niece of the Marquise de Polignac, races hunters, has been presented at Buckingham Palace. Long Island plain folk last week followed the young couple's entourage, rubbed elbows with them as often as possible, listened to Candidate Whitney declare the campaign issues were too complex to be discussed briefly. Candidate Whitney endorses the entire Democratic platform as "swell," recommends downward tariff revision. Congressional...
Though he never left Swiss soil last week, President de Valera performed from Geneva one of the most thoroughly Irish acts of his career. By his "advice" (order) the royally appointed Governor General of the Irish Free State, James McNeill, journeyed from Dublin to London, called at Buckingham Palace, resigned. Perforce King George accepted the resignation, showed his feelings by having Mr. McNeill to lunch, keeping him at the Palace until 3 p. m. As every Irishman knows, poor Mr. McNeill has been the butt of studied Dublin insults ever since Eamon de Valera became President (TIME, March...
...food really fit for a King can any longer be eaten by His Majesty," one of Buckingham Palace's chefs complained last year and last week ''Chummy" asked permission to resign...
...high forehead, grey eyes and a mass of ringlets under her hat. She swam, skated, rode a horse and bicycle, but preferred to read and study. The newspapers wrote of a regal wedding but actually it was a quiet, private ceremony in a parlor of Manhattan's old Buckingham Hotel. The first two years of their life together were spent in the quiet little river town of Council Bluffs. Iowa, and it was not until the McCormicks moved to Chicago that her imperiousness began to assert itself and the strange things that happen to the very rich began to happen...
...garden party at Buckingham Palace Queen Mary espied famed Helen Adams Keller, blind & deaf leader, asked that she be presented. Through Miss Keller's companion, who tapped the message into her palm, Her Majesty said: "I am so glad you were able to come to our party. . . ." In the August Atlantic Monthly Author Keller poked fun at Big Business by picturing a tycoon in complete charge of his household. The tycoon begins by baking ten cakes at once rather than let oven-heat go to waste, then coaxes his children to eat more than is good for them...