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...Buckingham went Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist-composer and quondam Premier of Poland. From Buckingham Palace came Sir Ignace Jan Paderewski, Knight Grand Cross of the Eminent Order of the British Empire...
...Gary gave word that the steel mills were going to give up their 12-hour day, as Edward W. Bok offered a prize of $100,000 for a practical peace plan and announced a committee in charge of the award, including as a member one John W. Davis, quondam Ambassador to the Court of St. James?speeding west beyond the Mississippi, in sweltering June and July, President and Mrs. Harding were entertained by farmers, Mormon elders, cowboys, pioneers, Indians?as far as Alaska. There Mr. Harding became ill?the first untoward event of the trip. Then homeward they came...
Died. Harold M. Sewall, 64, Republican National Committeeman from Maine, father-in-law of Senator Edge of New Jersey, onetime Consul General at Samoa, quondam Minister to Hawaii; in Manhattan, after a minor operation...
...been brought to my attention that in the issue of Friday, October 24, one of your editorials kindly explained to Hungary the mistake she was making in taking up Esperanto. Perhaps there have been answers already, if not it falls upon me, as quondam secretary of the Harvard Esperanto Club and as delegate of the Universal Esperanto Asocio, to explain the point of view of the Maygars...
...reasons unstated, the Cabinet presided over by Premier Ernst Trygger, quondam Chief Justice of Sweden, resigned...