Word: hon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Texas held its run-off primary for Democratic nomination to the Senate. U. S. Representative Tom Connally ran away from U. S. Senator Earle B. Mayfield by more than 50,000 votes. Interpretation: The Ku Klux Klan which backed the Hon. Mayfield is becoming as impotent in Texas as it is elsewhere...
When "Nervous Nelly" noted that the passenger's namecard outside his door read "Secretary of State of the United States of America," he rang for the steward, expostulated, had card changed to read "Frank B. Kellogg," even insisted on omission of his rightful prefix, "The Hon...
...Learned with ejaculations of surprise that rich, stern-hearted Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver has at length decided to aid in a peculiar manner the penniless widow and son of one Captain Walter Hinchliffe, who was lost while attempting to fly the Atlantic with Lord Inchcape's daughter, the Hon. Elsie Mackay. Unwilling to aid Widow Hinchliffe directly, Viscount Inchcape placed ?10,000 ($48,700) at the disposal and "absolute discretion" of Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, last week, with the request he administer it in such manner as to alleviate "any complaint by other sufferers from the disaster...
Married. The Right Hon. John Henry Whitley, 62, onetime (1921-28) Speaker of the British House of Commons who last month, retiring from the House, refused a peerage (TIME, July 9); and Helen Clarke, social worker; in London...
...peeress in her own right, which is possible, she could not have had a brother. If her brother is a marquis, though, she cannot be Lady Stanwick. She would be Lady Mary Benham (if that is supposed to be the family name). And the daughter could not be the Hon. Alicia. She would, of course, be Lady Alicia...