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...Barney & Lover. Before the Hon. Mr. Justice Humphreys and a jury of ten men & two women in Old Bailey appeared Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney, accused of murdering her lover Thomas William Scott Stephen after a cocktail party in her West End flat. One dawn last month a physician, hastily summoned, found Mrs. Barney, whose husband is a U. S. radio crooner, anxiously kissing Stephen's cooling corpse. A revolver lay nearby. While Mrs. Barney awaited trial her father. Sir John Mullens, was reported to be liquidating the Mullens gems to raise the huge fee of her defender, lean...
...coming-of-age dinner to Son Randolph Churchill in London's Socialite Claridges Hotel. Newspaper Peers Beaverbrook, Rothermere and Camrose all brought their sons as did Admiral Earl Beatty, Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon of Northern Ireland and Viscount Hailsham, Minister of War, whose son is the Hon. Quintin Hogg. The coming-of-age toast to Son Churchill, who sat between his kinsman the Duke of Marlborough and the Marquess of Reading, was proposed by the youthful Earl of Birkenhead, son of England's late and perhaps greatest Lord Chancellor. Cut and chomped was a coming-of-age cake...
Sirs: The most valid and puissant argument that I have knowledge of, for the retention of the 18th amendment in our constitution was that advanced by the Hon. Jack Bradford, prominent lawyer and planter of Itta Bena, Miss, (a so-called arid State) in a speech yesterday delivered on the Jones Fedric Plantation at the annual squirrel stew. Guests were the important cotton planters of this Mississippi Delta section. Applause was gusty. For the information of your readers, I quote the speech [in part]: ". . . Taxation is destroying our nation. We have been taxed in every way that the ingenuity...
Scholarly, tract-penning Hon. Mr. Justice Albert Bathurst Piddington, president of New South Wales's Industrial Commission, startled the Empire last week by penning a new tract to prove that His Majesty's Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, acted unconstitutionally fortnight ago when he dismissed Laborite State Premier John Thomas Lang, famed for repudiating New South Wales's debts (TIME...
...four years ago Publisher George Palmer Putnam of Manhattan confided in his friend Capt. Hilton R. Railey that there was a chance for the right young lady to fly the Atlantic. The Hon. Mrs. Frederick Guest, he said, had secretly bought a plane from Commander Byrd with the intention of being flown herself, but her family had interfered. If a "suitable" substitute could be found, Mrs. Guest still would finance the flight. Said Capt. Railey: "You wait," and hastened to Boston. When he returned Publisher Putnam's eyes popped with pleased astonishment...