Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Frederick George Moore Perceval, nth Earl of Egmont, 18, Canadian rancher; and one Ann Geraldine Moodie of Calgary; in Calgary, Alberta...
...thousands of Japanese believe that rich, undeveloped Manchuria is their only hope of salvation. When Count Uchida was born, what Japan is doing now would not have excited protest. When Count Uchida was nine years old, the Prime Minister of Britain was a brilliant, dapper Jew, Benjamin Disraeli, later Earl of Beaconsfield, who preached exactly the same sort of utilitarian imperialism, made his Queen Empress of India, bought the Suez Canal to develop Britain's oriental trade and to protect her Manchoukuo: Egypt. Disraeli was just as convinced as any Japanese today that his country must be master...
...which Count Uchida has made use of China's convenient "fissiparous tendencies" to divide and rule. He would have applauded the creation of Manchoukuo, an officially independent state whose advantages to Japan as a colony outweigh the responsibilities. But international ethics have advanced since the death of the pomaded Earl. The right of self-determination for any people, even one with fissiparous tendencies, is one that the average citizen of most countries believes in heartily. Even Count Uchida put forward as chief excuse for the invasion of Manchuria the idea that what they were really doing was helping a suppressed...
...Earl Maple, 51, went up; and her son Otis, 27; and Otis' son who is seven months. Herbert Butterfield came from Jacksonville, Fla. Youngest visitors were Mr. & Mrs. Bert Roby's twins, a boy and a girl, born three weeks before. More than 500 of Dr. Shelly's babies appeared. Marveled he: "Think of it! More than 4,000 in 52 years, and more than one-tenth of them here today. There'll be more before I quit practicing...
...editions of the Scandals (George White), Vanities (Earl Carroll), Passing Show (Lee & Jake Shubert...