Word: earls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first-string infield group Captain Percy Jenkins '24 was at shortstop, H. E. Slayton Jr. '26 at third base, J. C. McGlone '26 at second, and Thomas Campbell '24 at first. The second combination was composed of B. M. Rice '25, shortstop; Philip Keene 3 E.S., third base; Earl Evans '25, second base; and R. H. Field '26, first base. J. E. Knowlton '26 and J. J. H. Kerr '25 were tried at second and first base respectively toward the end of the workout...
...Navy. The entire fighting strength of the British Navy began manoeuvres off the Balearic Islands in the Spanish Mediterranean. Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty witnessed the operations which included a night attack against an imaginary enemy fleet...
Viscount Knebworth, Oxford, son of the Earl of Lytton, knocked out his London University opponent in a welterweight competition. This was taken to prove that the young peerage is not entirely useless...
...Earl Balfour, dean of Britain's "Elder Statesmen," intervened in a debate on India to offer a solemn warning to Indian agitators. He charged them with obstructing the British Government's plan to help India in preparing for full dominion home-rule, with moving people by Western catchwords, with committing a great crime against their fellow-countrymen and civilization. He refused to believe that Britain would leave 300,000,000 people of India to their fate in the hands of irresponsible agitators. He was of the opinion that the gradual extension of constitutional power in that country...
...Esme and Lady Howard (née Lady Isabella Giustiniani-Bandini daughter of Prince Giustiniani-Bandini, afterwards Earl of Newburgh) have five sons. The eldest is at Oxford and the second at Cambridge. Lady Howard will bring the other three over with her when she rejoins her husband, when they will be placed in preparatory schools. The Ambassador said that he hoped Esme, the eldest, would come to the U. S. after he had finished at Oxford and obtain a good...