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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...triumph the safe-blowing raid by Scotland Yard on Soviet trade headquarters in London (TIME, May 23), even though Sir William later admitted that the police did not find the "stolen State papers" which they were supposed to be seeking. At present, the Secretary of State for India, the Earl of Birkenhead, is drawing heavily on Mr. Baldwin's impeccable moral credit in the matter of a commission which will go to India next year and report upon what elements of greater freedom should be extended to Indians. When the Earl of Birkenhead himself tried to explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stocktaking | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

Speaking at London, last week, the rotund but potent 62-year-old Earl of Derby disparaged this idea before a physical-culturist audience, finally exclaiming: "I, ladies and gentlemen, have not touched my toes for 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Postulate Disproved | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Died. Lady Victoria Bullock, daughter of Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, onetime (1918-20) British Ambassador to France; following a hunting accident in which her skull was fractured when she attempted to ride under a low bridge; near Leicester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Back in England again he devoted himself more assiduously to his remaining ambition-to win the Derby horse race which his ancestor had established, now 147 years ago. The race had not been won by a member of his own family since 1787, when the 12th Earl secured the distinction. In 1924 fame overtook this ambition and the race was won for him by Sansovina. He gave the stake money ($53,460) to his trainer, the Hon. George Lambton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Derby Sale | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...Engaged. Earl S. Baruch, quarterback for the Princeton University football eleven; to Miss Phyllis H. Fox of Merion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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