Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nephew Erskine Gwynne; Grandsons Cornelius, George and William Henry Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Granddaughters Gladys and Sylvia Szechenyi, Barbara (Mrs. Barklie McKee Henry), Cathleen (Mrs. Lawrence Wise Lowman), Flora (Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller), Grace (Mrs. Henry Gassaway Davis III) and Cornelia (Mrs. Eugene B. Roberts); Grandniece Consuelo (Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith); Great-grandsons Whitney and Roderick Tower, William Barklie Henry, Harry Payne Whitney II; Great-grand-daughters Flora Miller, Gertrude Henry, Nancy Whitney...
Died. Le Baron Russell Briggs, 79, longtime Harvard clean & English professor; suddenly, of a heart ailment; while visiting his daughter in Milwaukee. Famed as a teacher of writing, he taught: Earl Derr Biggers, E. E. Cummings, Joseph Auslander, John Dos Passes, Frederick Lewis Allen, Conrad Aiken, Robert Benchley...
...High Crime and Misdemeanor that Tory Churchill charged last week was that, before this report was presented, Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, and the rotund Earl of Derby, member of the parliamentary committee on Indian reform, had invited the Manchester men to dinner at Lord Derby's London house, had filled them full of soft words, turtle soup and tawny port, had persuaded them to rewrite the report that they were about to submit...
...sorry state by the Danish invasion. A Danish king had ruled it for years, and when the Saxon line regained the throne, Danish influence and Danish families still dictated to the country. Edward, called the Confessor, was a good man and later a canonized Saint, but a Danish earl and his sons dominated the king and wracked the land with their ambitions enterprises. The succession was obscured. There was Harold, who finally obtained it; there was Edward the Aetheling ("the exile") who prudently remained in far-off Hungary, and there was William, Duke of Normandy...
Cleveland, whose conservative citizens shuddered with apprehension 33 years ago when the late great Liberal Tom Johnson became Mayor, was host last week to the eighth convention of the Communist Party, U. S. A. More than 3,000 ill-dressed spectators filled Prospect Auditorium when Party Secretary Earl Browder, in the absence of sick Chairman William Zebulon Foster, opened the meeting beneath loops of blood-red bunting and a painting of a worker bursting from his chains. No one without a scarlet party card was admitted to executive sessions, but the party organ, the New York Daily Worker, carried full...