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Last week Brother Tikytt's psalter appeared in Manhattan as a principal item in an auction of the library of the Marquess of Lothian at the American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc. Not in two decades, it was claimed, had such an important sale of manuscripts and incunabula occurred...
...London. Dr. Hugo Eckener. director, and Col. Edward Andrews Deeds of National City Co., board chairman, of International Zeppelin Corp., asked the Air Minister, the Marquess of Londonderry, for permission to use the air stations at Howden and Cardington (homes of the wrecked R-101 and dismantled R-101) as bases for Zeppelin Corp.'s projected transatlantic airship service...
Secretary of State for Air, Marquess of Londonderry, Conservative...
Within a few hours Brer Briand, abetted by British Foreign Secretary the Marquess of Reading, had transformed the issue before the League into: Shall the U. S., which has always refused League membership, have a temporary Council seat? To U. S. observers this question proved roughly eight times as interesting as what happened to China or Japan. Despatches speculating on whether President Hoover (a onetime Democrat) was "trying to enter the League by the back door" were slapped under front page headlines three columns wide. Despatches datelined Tokyo, Nanking, Shanghai and Mukden were boiled down to second-page squibs. Even...
...Marquess of Crewe?Secretary of State...