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...resigned from the British Cabinet. Reason: He had nothing to do. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin regretfully accepted the resignation. The bluest of blood and the highest of brows has Lord Eustace Percy. The seventh son of the seventh Duke of Northumberland, he is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror's chieftain, William ("als Gernons"*) de Percy. A brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, he has served in the Ministry of Health and the Foreign Office, was President of the Board of Education from 1924 to 1929. He is still, a Governor of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, frequently...
...Ingalls, 12_0 conqueror of Northeastern, will be on the mound again for the Crimson. Though parsimonious with passes, the burly Sophomore needs work to perfect his control. In both the Fordham and Northeastern games he showed an alarming tendency to groove his fast ball right down the middle...
...leaders met in Washington for their biennial convention. There was more money ($2,298,000) in the treasury, more members (540,000) on the rolls than ever before in the union's 46 years. But what made the miners' convention really significant was that the doughty conqueror of Spanish Pete would, if he could, change the course of the entire U. S. Labor Movement...
...last week's new King took the Throne as Edward VII and founded the Anglo-French entente which was to defeat Germany. Such was the talent of Victorians that by memorizing only the following 20 lines one has upon tongue-tip all the sovereigns of England from the Conqueror to Victoria...
First came William the Conqueror...