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Comedienne Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) was among the early-morning guests at Club Calais, one of the many nightclubs in Manhattan. A man passed her table, stumbled over her feet. He proved to be Ben ("Brownie") Bronston, whom the New York Daily News described as "a pal of Waxie Gordon in the Jersey booze racket." That newspaper reported the following conversation...
This minimum, so modestly mentioned, will in fact: leave under British control the Indian Federation's armed forces, foreign policy, state finances. Even so Great Britain yielded at the Round Table Conference more than anyone expected she would. At the last moment, just before the conference rose, Lord Peel, speaking for the British Conservative Party, joined Lord Reading (for the Liberals) and Laborite MacDonald in pledging his party's support to the concessions offered India "if satisfactory safeguards are obtained...
...Paul Brooks 195 Armistead Buckner Rood 95 Arnold Louis Kowarsky 74 Samuel Kunen 28 FOR ODIST Eugene Louis Belisle 145 Arthur John Joseph Bohn 117 Wilson Mumford Wing 97 George Seers Greene 79 FOR POET Thomas Graydon Upton 129 David Damerest Lloyd 85 Horace Abram Rigg 82 Robert Arthur Peel 55 Charles Francis Elliot 37 *Elected
Robert Arthur Peel...
Brahman Dr. B. S. Moonje (Infuriated by Lord Peel, he had sat up all night revising his mild speech into an address of burning emotion...