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Some hours later when the Ambassadorial party reached London it was greeted first by a dense fog and then by U. S. Consul General Skinner, J. B. Monk of the Foreign Office, who represented Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon, J. Wilson Taylor, Secretary of the Pilgrims who represented Lord Desborough, the President, and by Sir John Henry for Sir Auckland Geddes, retiring British Ambassador...
...Lady Curzon is the daughter of George Nathaniel Curzon, foreign minister in the Baldwin Cabinet...
Recently his rumored engagement to Miss Grace Vanderbilt of Manhattan was 'denied. More recently Lady Irene Curzon,- whose mother was Miss Mary Leiter of Chicago, has been mentioned. This, however, is most unlikely, as Lady Irene is six years older than he. When he does decide to marry he will become entitled to another $65,250 a year from the State...
...upon, "kicked in the shin" and "treated insultingly" by a crowd of hooligans. In London H. Hogbin, Liberal candidate for Battersea, was forced to cancel all his meetings because he could never make himself heard. Even the pleas of his opponent for fair play failed to help matters. Lord Curzon was another victim of the rowdies. There were many other incidents of "howling down" meetings. The Labor Party at its London headquarters admitted that some of the "more exuberant" had got out of bounds and a manifesto deploring such tactics was issued...
...This rhyme has frequently appeared of late in the public prints. And it has sometimes been supplemented by the information that the motto appearing on the Curzon arms is 'Let Curzon holde what Curzon helde', and the statement that our crest is described in heraldry as 'a popinjay rising, wings displayed...