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Engaged. Elizabeth Murton du Pont. 20, daughter of Director Eugene E. du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., and cousin of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., to Walter Samuel Carpenter 3d. 22. son of du Font's vice president, Walter S. Carpenter Jr.; in Wilmington. Del...
Into Buenos Aires last week dropped a "flying caravan" of four U. S. women representing the People's Mandate to End War. Led by Pacifist Elise Burton Musser, former Utah State Senator, the members of the flying junket-Mrs. Enoch Wesley Frost of Arkansas, Mrs. Ana del Pulgar de Burke of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Rebecca Hourwich Reyher of New York-left Hyde Park, N. Y. on October 30, with President Roosevelt's benediction, to exhort the Latin American nations into ratifying the Inter-American conference peace treaties (TIME...
Three days out from Liverpool last week on the small British liner Reina del Pacifico, slowly plowing its way south toward Bermuda and a South American cruise, most of the passengers were just finishing a hearty dinner. In London at the same instant most of the political bigwigs of Britain were finishing an even heartier one, the annual Lord Mayor's banquet. Too ill to eat his own was the Reina's most distinguished passenger, James Ramsay MacDonald. At 8:45 he quietly died of heart failure...
...crimp the political chances of his son Malcolm who. as Secretary of State for the Dominions, hustled back from the Brussels Conference last week to arrange his father's funeral. Because doctors worried greatly over Scot MacDonald's increasing melancholia, he was sent on the Reina del Pacifico cruise with his youngest daughter, Sheila, for companion. With his body still at sea. the British Government proffered him the honor of a Westminster Abbey burial. This the MacDonald family politely refused. For years Ramsay MacDonald had hoped to be buried in his beloved Lossiemouth, beside his still more beloved...
...rumor got out that his secretive expedition would carry only Portuguese seamen, Magellan tried to stop the angry clamor with bullets, finally took long three Spanish captains. Chosen for their politics rather than their seamanship, they gave him much less opposition than the Basque ship's master, Sebastian del Cano (who with 34 survivors with the only officer to get back to Spain) and del Cano's young protege Gonzalo. If these two, says Author Ford, had been listened to, the voyage would have ended very differently. Suspicious of Magellan's behavior,, del Cano and Gonzalo discovered...