Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot...
...Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, famed "Black Eagle of Harlem," who drilled Ethiopian youngsters with wooden guns during the Italo-Ethiopian War, arrived in Paris to make a "comprehensive study of the international situation" as a war reporter for the Harlem newssheet, the Amsterdam News. "I am," said he, "ready to offer my services to France...
...precocious young newspapermen are the sons of Britain's Princess Royal, Viscount George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 16, and the Honorable Gerald David Lascelles, 15. Since 1936 these young men have edited and distributed to their subscribers (now 200 at 55. a year) an illustrated monthly called The Harewood News. Heretofore Harewood News has been read chiefly for its illuminating racing tips, supposedly written by the publishers' father, Lord Harewood. But last week Viscount Lascelles and the Honorable Gerald Lascelles made banner headlines in London's newspapers...
...crinkle-mouthed Crooner Rudy Vallée has spread his oleaginous voice on the air waves for Standard Brands Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Gelatin). Their partnership is radio's longest. Radio's first big variety show made Yale-bred Rudy Vallée (real name: Hubert Pryor Vallée) radio's first big-money performer, began radio's first national song craze (I'm Just a Vagabond Lover), first exploited the radio talents of Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Alice Faye, Joe Penner, Frances Langford. Its popularity is still impressive...
Most disgusted man in Harlem last week was Hubert Fauntleroy ("The Black Eagle") Julian, who once trained fliers for Abyssinia's Emperor Haile Selassie. Because he could produce neither plane nor pilot's license (it has expired), the Civil Aeronautics Authority not only refused him a permit to fly the Atlantic, but told him he would have to apply for a student's permit, like any beginner...