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...week the Rt. Hon. Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy resigned from the British Cabinet. Reason: He had nothing to do. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin regretfully accepted the resignation. The bluest of blood and the highest of brows has Lord Eustace Percy. The seventh son of the seventh Duke of Northumberland, he is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror's chieftain, William ("als Gernons"*) de Percy. A brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, he has served in the Ministry of Health and the Foreign Office, was President of the Board of Education from 1924 to 1929. He is still, a Governor...
...have failed to be the instrument to save Britishcommerce from attack by Germany. . . ." By April, Allied rejection of the U. S. proposal was unanimous and had been docilely accepted by Secretary Lansing and President Wilson. Years later Sir Edward Grey, a Viscount, retired to feeding wild ducks on his Northumberland estate, was to write in his memoirs that the Allies, utterly dependent on the U. S. for supplies, would have had to accept any terms on which the U. S. insisted...
...Northumberland, Pa., following the last wishes of Bandmaster W. H. Calhoun, 77, three brass bands followed Calhoun's coffin to the grave, Calhoun's Band, the Calhoun Boys' Band and the 103rd Cavalry Band, all playing good lively march music...
...odious Duke of Northumberland, plotting to transfer the royal crown of England from a Tudor to a Dudley brow, cared nothing for charm or scholarship. He dragged Lady Jane from her bower, gave her in marriage to his son, Guildford Dudley, and confounded for the nonce all other aspirants for the throne. Lady Jane swooned prettily when she heard that the Council in its pliancy had named her Queen of England. Meanwhile London could hear the rumbling of the distant drum, as the Eastern counties rose for Tudor Mary, and Catholic troops moved towards the metropolis. While Ridley harangued...
Harvard Club of London--Dinner to President Conant at Hotel Victoria, Northumberland Avenue, W. C. Tonight (Friday). All Harvard men invited. Tickets 10z.6d. (exclusive of wines).--Apply Secretary, 30 Lombard Street, E.C. Telephone, Mansion House...