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...bill favoring woman suffrage, drawn up by M. Justin Godart, quondam Minister in the Clemenceau Cabinet, and signed by 83 other Deputies, with political faiths ranging from Conservative to Socialist, was introduced into the Chamber of Deputies...
Louis Dorbon, quondam Under Secretary to President Millerand when he was Minister of War, was detained by the U. S. Immigration authorities when he tried to reenter the U. S. M. Dorbon is a well known book-seller and it was suggested that the reason for his detention was the sale in the U. S. of Victor Margueritte's book La Garconne. This, however, was unsubstantiated; the real reason was not given. Said M. Dorbon: "I have crossed from New York to Paris 21 times. Never have I been held up in this way before. It is incomprehensible...
Count Robert Zedlitz und Trütschler, 60, a retired officer of the famed Prussian Guards and quondam Marshal of Kaiser Wilhelm's Court, wrote a book, Twelve Years at the German Court...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, quondam President of Amherst College, was forced out of that post last Spring (TIME, June 25, July 2), supposedly because of his too-liberal opinions. Whether his opinions are pink, yellow, black or white, it is easy to understand how they can make enemies on account of the manner of their expression. An example of this was furnished last week when Dr. Meiklejohn made an address to the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. His words, if typical, denote a new period in the history of education, as compared to the diction of the Eliots, the Dwights...
Viscountess Grey was born Pamela Genevieve Adelaide Wyndham, youngest daughter of the late Hon. Percy Wyndham. In 1895 she married the first Baron Glenconner and was left a widow in 1920 with three sons and a daughter. In 1922 she married Viscount Grey of Fallodon, formerly Sir Edward Grey, quondam Foreign Minister and British Ambassador to the U. S. Lady Grey is a Fellow of the Eoyal Society of Literature and has published the following books: The White Wallet, The Sayings of the Children, Edward Wyndham Tennant, 4th Grendier Guards...