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...father's fortune-after being "double crossed" by some of his associates in the pit. In 1923 his sister, the Countess of Suffolk and Bershire (another sister, who died in 1906, was the wife of the late great Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, onetime Viceroy of India) brought suit to have him removed as trustee of the family's estate. She charged mismanagement and incompetency. After eight years' litigation, the suit was decided in Joseph Leiter's favor. Famed were his wine cellars, his race horses. Once he wrote a cook book, had it privately printed...
...monogamy; a big-game hunting article, suggesting that African lions are really tame; a summary of now familiar facts about Siam's royalty. The American Weekly of the same date offered: "If the Earth Becomes Uninhabitable-Where Shall We Go?," with brilliant illustrations; "Mystery of American Lady Curzon's Vanished Millions." "Still Another 'Betty Coed' Tragedy"; 'Judas the Hero of a Play That Has Startled London"; "Lacquered Hair Women's Newest Freak Fashion"; "Contradictions of Nature Which Puzzle Science"; "Real Nightmare Pictures Painted While She 'Dreams...
...Cumberland mines which reduced that part of his income from $600,000 to $10,000 yearly, his Lordship said he must lease the shooting at Lowther Castle. Worse, he must sell nearly all his racehorses, for a generation among Britain's finest. Also last week, the Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (grave Elvina Hinds of Alabama) went into bankruptcy in London...
...young Etonians this year are: Hon. Francis David Langhorne Astor and Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor; Viscounts Chelsea and Northland; Earl of Shrewsbury. Eton's many celebrated graduates include: 17 British Prime Ministers (Harrow has six including Lord Peel, Lord Palmerston and .Stanley Baldwin), Lord Roberts, Viscount Byng, Marquis Curzon, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Major General Corn wall is, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Novelist Henry Fielding, Poets Phineas and Giles Fletcher, Edmund Waller, Thomas Gray, Percy Bysshe Shelley (but George Gordon Lord Byron was a Harrovian...
...Appellate Court in Chicago put an end to the eight-year fight of Lady Marguerite Hyde, Countess of Suffolk 6 Berkshire, and the daughters of the late Lady Mary Curzon, Mary Irene, Baroness Ravensdale, Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosely and Lady Alexandra Naldera Metcalfe to have Joseph Leiter of Chicago ousted as trustee of his father's $30,000,000 estate. Joseph Leiter's sister and nieces claimed that he had spent $7,000.000 too much in developing Wyoming ranch lands, that he was extravagant personally, having once ordered 50 doz. pairs of silk socks. He cried: "I am a hard...