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...Barkley campaign is the Louisville Triumvirate-supposed to be the decisive force in any Democratic contest in Kentucky. This extraordinary political team is composed of Lawyer Shackleford Miller Jr.; Michael ("Mickey" j Brennan, 61, red-headed one-time saloonkeeper; and "Miz" Lennie Lee McLaughlin, 34, who looks like the Duchess of Windsor and lives in style at the Kentucky Hotel. A country belle from Breckenridge County, she got into politics via a typing job at Alben Barkley's headquarters when he ran for Governor in 1923. She runs the office of the Jefferson County Democratic executive committee. Mickey Brennan...
Since Her late Majesty was a second cousin of King-Emperor George VI, to the funeral came the Duke and Duchess of Kent. There was no question of the Queen's popularity, for Bucharest filled to overflowing with Rumanians from all over the country, many arriving from great distances. As Marie of Rumania passed to her last resting place, devout thousands groveled in prayer, made the sign of the cross...
According to the 64-year-old Duchess, the Rightists have planted more than 20 large guns of German make in the hills around Algeciras, commanding Gibraltar; a number of long-range 5.9-inch weapons have been installed along the coast "so placed that they could drop shells in Gibraltar but yet are invisible from the highest point on the rock": nine naval-type guns are located on Punta Carnero, on the west side of Gibraltar bay, and at least one 15-inch weapon on a high peak near Alcála de los Gazules, some 40 miles inland; 45 more...
...trying a week as last the Duchess' charges, which she phrased as a formal question, would have elicited the usual day-later answer from the Prime Minister, but by next day the Sandys storm had swept over the House, burying the Duchess' question beneath...
...trying to divorce in Denmark, had threatened her with bodily harm. The Count, in Paris, ordered his luggage packed, took train and boat to London. Scotland Yard officials politely whisked him to famed old Dickensian Bow Street Police Court, where his lawyer, Norman Birkett, who got the Duchess of Windsor her divorce from Mr. Simpson, asked to have the case postponed. Agreeing, the Chief Magistrate stipulated that: The Count must: 1) not try to see his wife; 2) refrain from toting a gun; 3) post $10,000 bail. Meanwhile, Countess Babs had made their two-year-old Son Lance...