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Before hurrying to catch a boat that will get him and the other U. S. golfers back in time for the U. S. Open at Ardmore, Pa., June 7, Little had time to receive the huge cup from the Marquess of Ailsa and say: "I would need all of Shakespeare and Webster adequately to express my thanks. . . . The cup will be kept nice and shiny...
Died. John Campbell Gordon, 86, First Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, onetime Governor-General of Canada, twice Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; after a lingering illness; in Tarland, Aberdeen-shire, Scotland...
Though Lord Rothermere's frequent gallops rarely get anywhere, a ride with darkling, vivacious, rich Sir Oswald was bound to be interesting. In 1918 he, a War veteran, moved into the House of Commons as a Conservative. Two years later he married Lady Cynthia, daughter of the Marquess Curzon. He began drifting Left, to the Independents, to the Laborites, to the rebel Laborites. In 1932 he swung violently back, past his original Conservative friends, to a new Right extreme, the "British Union of Fascists" whose members he fitted out with black shirts and badges but no anti-Semitic program...
...this ducal cue up popped the Marquess of Londonderry, Secretary of State for Air. "We cannot accept continuance of our present inferiority," he declared for the Government. "If parity cannot be secured by reductions elsewhere we will have no option but to build upward. [Cries of "Hear, hear!"] Our present relative weakness in the air cannot be allowed to continue...
...Voted approval of the Government's new policy of building up the air fleet announced last week by the Marquess of Londonderry in what members of the House of Commons refer to only as "another place" (see above...