Word: norfolkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Globule," by the premier parodist of England, Editor Squire of the London Mercury, when "sturdy tenantry" assembled at Norman grey Arundel Castle to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Premier Duke and Earl of England, shy, none-too-bright Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan- Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Baron Maltravers, Earl of Surrey, Baron FitzAlan, Clun and Oswaldestre, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England (TIME, June 10). The diffident Duke, who in addition to his titles is the chief Roman Catholic peer in Great Britain, has been schooled entirely by private nurses and tutors...
Definite concrete advantages come to the First Duke with his articles of incorporation. As Duke of Norfolk he is the owner of about 50,000 acres of land, some of it in London, all of it valuable. As an individual landowner he must pay taxes on all of this with only a small deduction for needed repairs to tenants' land. By forming himself into a regularly constituted corporation with an official board of directors, he need only pay income tax on dividends paid, in other words on his net income...
...fleet of ships to India for the Shipping Board. In 1926 he took into the company two widely known young shipping men: John M. Franklin, whose father heads International Mercantile Marine Co., and Basil Harris. The Line is now negotiating for a trans-Atlantic mail contract between Baltimore and Norfolk and Havre, Hamburg, and Bremen, which calls for five 16-knot steamships. The Roosevelt Line is thus a young man's company, and the accession of Commodore Astor emphasizes this feature. His directorship certainly means added re sources for the Roosevelt Line in its bidding for the Baltimore-Hamburg...
Died. Right Rev. Beverley Dandridge Tucker, 83, Protestant Episcopal Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Virginia, onetime Confederate Artilleryman; at Norfolk...