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...Everybody said Mahmoud would not stay the course, but by judicious handling I made him stay." This statement was made last week not by Jockey Charles Smirke, who had just ridden Mahmoud to victory in the Derby at Epsom Downs, England, but by the 44th lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed's daughter, Fatima: Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan, Mahmoud's haunchy, paunchy brown-skinned owner, who was still waving his silk hat to show his enthusiasm. To balance his excited hyperbole the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems...
...Dealer, President Roosevelt appointed handsome, silvery haired Elwood Hamilton, a reliable New Dealer.* Predecessor Dawson shortly argued before Successor Hamilton that the New Deal law requiring prison-made goods to be labeled as such was unconstitutional. Not so, decided Judge Hamilton. Next, Lawyer Dawson attacked the Guffey Coal Act, lineal descendant of the NRA coal code which he, as judge, had declared unconstitutional. Sound as a drum, Judge Hamilton last week called a second strike against his predecessor...
...most extraordinary sportsmen in the world, the Aga Khan is the spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Muslems, the 44th lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed's Daughter Fatima, an honorary member of the Jockey Club and a member of His Majesty's Privy Council. He is so fond of pleasure that in the last five years his string of race horses, whose upkeep costs him $150,000 a year, have won nearly every important race in Europe, and become, with the possible exception of the Whitney stables in the U. S., the most valuable in the world...
...head of a band of 104 settlers, sallow, thin-faced Ethan Allen, lineal descendant of the Green Mountain general of the Revolution, set out from Minneapolis to found a co-operative homestead settlement in northern Minnesota. Shrewd Leader Allen had persuaded the U. S. Government to buy 640 acres of land for $9,000. After one winter in a community log house, each family will receive, in addition to land, two cows, two pigs, a hive of bees, 100 chickens, farm machinery, a house costing $1,500?all free...
...breeches stepped bravely up to a steward. "My name is Wainwright," said he. "I'm a stowaway, sir, and I'd like some supper." No penniless adventurer was Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., 8, but a scion of Manhattan's socialite Livingstons, de Peysters, Wainwrights, great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked calmly up the gangplank of the Queen of Bermuda, caused a kidnapping scare in Hamilton before he gave himself...