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Engaged. Mrs. Gwendolyn Whistler Haughton, widow of Percy D. Haughton, famed Harvard and Columbia football coach who died last fall, grandniece of the late James Abbott McNeill Whistler, famed painter, to Augustin H. Parker, Boston broker...
...Associate Justice) Stone came into office, he ordered that every effort be made to clear up the large number of Prohibition cases in arrears before the courts. The effort was made. Mail)7 convictions resulted. Now the result is being felt. The Federal prisons at Atlanta, Leavenworth and McNeill's Island are badly overcrowded. Some prisoners have been "boarded" by the Federal Government in local jails-an expensive business for the Government. In order to reduce the crowding, the board of paroles has been ordered to expedite its work. Ordinarily a bootlegger sentenced to a year in jail cannot...
...Foreign Secretary's understudy, Mr. Ronald McNeill, stated that His Majesty's Government regretfully "found themselves unable to accede to the request that diplomatic status be accorded representatives of the customs division of the United States Treasury Department...
When James McNeill Whistler died in 1903, people believed that this masterpiece would forthwith be placed in the Louvre. The curators of that museum, however, decided to let it undergo a seasoning in the Luxembourg. There it has remained. This summer, the room in which it hung was needed for an exhibition of Rumanian paintings. The Whistler, despite the belated protests of U. S. tourists, was put in the cellar...
...majority of 122) to transfer to Parliament the royal prerogative of concluding treaties with foreign powers upon the advice of the Cabinet. If the motion were defeated; the next Labor Government would see that it was carried, he said. The motion was designed to preclude secret treaties; but Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs, stated that all treaties with foreign powers were even now registered in their entirety with the League of Nations...