Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conferred the Most Exalted Order of The Star of India upon the Earl of Birkenhead, when he resigned as Secretary of State for India...
...polite tempest of gossip and denial that the great Earl of Birkenhead would resign as Secretary of State for India was finally stilled, last week, when he, burly, brilliant and socially lionized, despatched to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a lengthy letter. Suave, it concluded: "The moment of parting is always sad. Your own personality has converted a Cabinet which assembled upon the crater of some bitter and recent memories into a band of brothers. I leave them and you with emotion and, if I may be allowed to say so, with affection."-Birkenhead...
Lord Peel. Appointed to succeed Lord Birkenhead at the India Office, last week, was Lord Peel...
People who know that famed Revue Comedienne Beatrice Lillie is also Lady Peel were struck by the coincidence. It was fun to imagine the often studiously vulgar Beatrice capering and kicking her heels high at India House. Of course she will never do so. For Lady (Beatrice Lillie) Peel is not the spouse of Lord Peel, but merely the wife of Sir Robert Peel, Baronet...
Four million lepers exist in the world. One million are in India. The U. S. has a leprosarium at Carville, La. At Culion, Philippine Islands, is another, and at Molokai, Hawaii, a third. In memory of the late General Leonard Wood, his friends are soliciting $2,000,000 for a leprosy hospital and clinic at Culion. They have a little more than half the needed money; are prodding the country for the rest...