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Born. To Senator Robert Marion LaFollette of Wisconsin, and to Rachel Young LaFollette; a son (7 lb. 14 oz.); in Washington. Engaged. Leonora Brooke. 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak (northwestern Borneo); and Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inch- cape, 45, son of the late Lord Inchcape, shipping tycoon, brother of the Hon. Elsie Mackay who was lost in an attempted transatlantic flight in 1928. (In 1840 Trader James Brooke, great-uncle of Sir Charles, helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married...
...name of Khair-ul-Nissa, Fairest of Women." Then he sat down with his convert to a grilled chop & boiled potato. When Daughter Gladys of the late Sir Walter Palmer (Huntley & Palmers) married His Highness the Tuan Muda Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke, brother and heir presumptive of the Raja of Sarawak,* in 1904 she was a Protestant. Later she became a Christian Scientist, then a Catholic. Owner of the tunic of Mohammed himself (valued at $1,750,000), she decided to embrace his religion, chose the air for the ceremony "because I wished it to be performed on no earthly...
...century ago James Brooke left home, stocked a vessel with arms, took up piracy. Off the coast of Sarawak, rich province in northern Borneo, 800 mi. due east of Singapore, he stopped to rescue a beleaguered Sultan. The first thing the Sultan knew James Brooke was Raja of Sarawak. When Queen Victoria heard about his feat she knighted him. Present Raja, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, is his grand-nephew...
...many of whom are supported on their petty thrones by British might, that the Viceroy turned. Presently no less than 40 of these resplendent potentates addressed, to the Chamber of Princes in New Delhi, most powerful pronouncements against what several of them called "the menace of independence." Each little Raja or big Maharaja read his speech from a typewritten copy, and the perfect unanimity of the proceeding was an impressive tribute to what is called "the genius of Great Britain for governing Backward Peoples...
...visit to the Royal Family over, Sir Hari remained in London for a short time before crossing over to Paris to disport himself. In this brief interval, he succumbed to the wiles of a certain bewitching Mrs. Robinson. Apparently, however, the Raja did not treat his ladylove with the liberality that she had expected. Therefore, according to the evidence given at the trial, she became implicated in a plot...