Word: esmonde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side of Winston Churchill's 18-year-old Nephew Esmond Romilly, fighting with the Spanish Loyalists since last December, sped the Hon. Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, 19, beauteous fifth daughter of Baron Redesdale. When fuming Lord Redesdale moved to have Daughter Jessica made a ward in chancery so that it would have been a crime for any Englishman to marry her without the consent of the High Court, Esmond and Jessica coolly announced that that was all right with them, "as what is marriage but a mere convention?" A British consular official was sent after the couple, instructed...
...private life but was influenced by her in public affairs, especially foreign politics. His behaviour to his mother, Queen Mary, is notoriously bad and was instigated by Mrs. Simpson. His professions of great concern for the unemployed which were used by his clique of cronies, headed by Esmond Harmsworth, as the weapon to upset the Government were rather insincere when compared with the facts. He gave ?10, ($50) on his Welsh visit, for the unemployed. On the other hand, he dismissed hundreds of employees at Balmoral & Sandringham, and sold off everything on these properties which was salable, and with...
London's sidewalk artists reap a harvest of Sunday coppers by drawing Mrs. Simpson in colored crayon. Meanwhile King Edward at his snuggery declines to receive his friend and recent guest in Scotland, the Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, son of the No. 2 British Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere. In his great, mass-conscious penny-press thunders Rothermere: "I have just returned from a trip around the world. . . . Everywhere unstinted praise and admiration of our King! . . . You cannot smuggle the greatest living Englishman off the throne of England during the weekend...
...Esmond Cecil Harmsworth is understood to have tried to see His Majesty as a spokesman for the "King's Men," now grown to 90 M.P.'s and their leader Mr. Winston Churchill who keynotes: "If an abdication were to be hastily extorted, the outrage so committed would cast its shadow forward across many chapters of the future history of the British Empire!'' Mr. Baldwin is again with the King at the snuggery from 6:15 to 7:30. Says Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, in mortal terror lest the Irish Free State make whatever...
...batch of newspaper duty stamps was shipped out to the Colonies from England, deduced that the Louisiana tax law was not only unconstitutional but historically unsound. Last autumn three U. S. District Court judges sitting at Baton Rouge found for the publishers on the discrimination plea presented by Lawyer Esmond Phelps, a New Orleans Times-Picayune director, passed over Lawyer Deutsch's libertarian thesis. When Public Account Supervisor Alice Lee Grosjean took the case to Washington, however, Lawyer Elisha Hanson was assigned to urge the freedom-of-the- press angle. His brief substantially followed Lawyer Deutsch's original...