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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iolani Palace, where Hawaiian kings once sat enthroned, Hon. Antonio Perry, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, stood by to administer the oath of office. Governor Judd delivered his Inaugural address to the mixed crowds waiting outside. That evening a dinner for 250 was served in the Governor's mansion, out of which the last and deposed Hawaiian queen, Liliuokalani, was removed in 1917. Governor Judd planned as his first work of office, a month's inspection tour of the Islands...
England's aristocratically somnolent House of Lords last week swallowed up another British Socialist,* Rt. Hon. Sidney Webb, hale septuagenarian, world-famed political economist (Fabianism). Statesmen, educators, students who for almost 40 years have known the plain name of Sidney Webb as a synonym for scholarly and philosophically radical Socialism, will not soon be accustomed to his new Socialist title, "Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner" (after his estate in Hampshire). Unfamiliar with his new position and decidedly uncomfortable in it seemed Sidney Webb, last week, as he entered the House of Lords and went through the ceremony of becoming...
...customary "dissolution honors," bestowed by King George at the request of the outgoing Conservative ministry. Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, fussy Home Secretary in the Baldwin Cabinet, whose battles against Prayer Book revision and sex novels have made him a national caricature, became Viscount Brentford. Viscount Peel (Rt. Hon. William Robert Wellesley Peel), onetime Secretary of State for India, was gazetted an earl...
...ancient, gifted family of Sackville existed in Elizabethan times, later played host to such cultured notables as Poets Pope and Dryden. Best known of living members is Lady-Novelist the Hon. V. Sackville-West (Seducers in Ecuador, The Land.) The family figures importantly in Novelist Virginia Woolf s Orlando...
...108th Bishop of London, the Rt. Hon., Rt. Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, had every reason to be well pleased last week. In Town was a 23-year-old friend of his, Helen Newington Wills, that tennis girl from California. Although she is perhaps the world's best amateur woman player and although he is a septuagenarian, the Bishop and Miss Wills played tennis together last month while she was in England to be presented at Court. It was not, however, to play him a return match that she had returned. It was Wimbledon time. The Bishop, like many another...