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...Duchess, ''best and dearest woman ever born," received the Arlington Street house (which she has been forced to sell to meet the heavy death duties amounting to about $1,300,000), an automobile, a horse, carriage and about $100,000. Each of his daughters, including Lady Diana Duff Cooper, famed beauty, received about $100,000. The Duke was unable to leave anything to charity "as the heavy taxation and intolerable supertax render impossible any such action." He hoped that his son, now the ninth Duke, "will not spend his money to purchase unnecessary collections," but will "take care...
...Maiden Speech. Alfred Duff Cooper, known under the pseudonym of beautiful Lady Diana Duff Cooper's* husband, made his first speech in the House: "If the League were to decide against us and say we must withdraw in favor of some other country, then the British people would refuse to recognize the ruling of the League; and that would be the end of the League forever...
...Lady Diana Duff Cooper is a daughter of the Duke of Rutland. She is better known as Lady Diana Manners, famed beauty and actress...
...Homeric (White Star)?Lady Diana Manners and her husband Alfred Duff Cooper; Cosmo Hamilton, dramatist and novelist, brother of Sir Philip Gibbs; George F. Baker, famed banker; Eberhard Faber (lead pencils) ; May Wilson Preston, illustrator...
...case was tried at Langdell Hall before a court of three eminent justices. The Rt. Hon. Lyman P. Duff, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, presided. His colleagues were the Hon. Alex, Simpson, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and the Hon. Leslie P. Snow, Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Their decision came after a conference of less than ten minutes...