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...bride, handsome, wholesome, dark-browed Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 33, daughter of an ancient fighting family of Border Scots, was given a total of five tiaras by the groom's family...
Died. Sir John Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 71, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, holder of 14 peerages, chieftain of the clan Scott, prospective father-in-law of George V's third son, the Duke of Gloucester (TIME, Sept. 9); in Selkirk, Scotland...
...cage roams the forlorn J. Ramsay MacDonald, "after three years as a Peripatetic premier, now here and now there, wandering like a lost soul over the face of the British Empire . . . hated by his former followers and ignored by his Tory colleagues." Winston Churchill, Sir Samuel Hoare, George V, Montagu Norman are less sensational exhibits in the British tent. But before the British Intelligence Service, the Marquess of Reading and Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon. who shifted a fortune of 85 million dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder not entirely...
...those dismal howls which the greatest of British bankers from time to time permit themselves went up after coffee, cognac and black cigars at London's Mansion House last week from fox-bearded Montagu Collett Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. "Look east or west, or wherever one will, and we see gold escaping from Europe across the Atlantic," gloomed the Governor. "How far we are from those settled conditions under which alone we can work...
...Henry of Gloucester bought his fiancée, Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott a platinum engagement ring with a sapphire between two diamonds for $925 from Garrards in Albermarle Street, also a platinum wedding ring...