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...Keith Randolph Symon...
...Conservatives, resigned. Two of them announced that they would function as "independent" members of the House of Commons, while advocating a new Government of National Union with strong Empire representation. The third, moonfaced, ambitious, onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha (whom Churchill thoroughly detests and whom his son Randolph once described as "Britain's No. 1 Racketeer Politician"), stated that he would continue to support the Government. But many Britons guessed that he considered the eventual fall of Churchill a good gamble...
...RANDOLPH FIELD, Tex., Feb. 2, 1942--Although recent action by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson knocked off the two-year college requirement formerly needed for enlistment as an Aviation Cadet, the United States Army Air Corps is still in need of men who have received special college training, Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center officers declared today...
...Cowes, during a ball aboard a British cruiser one August night in the 1870s, the future Lord Randolph Churchill met three American girls named Jerome and promptly told a friend that he intended to marry "the dark one." Next day he proposed and was accepted. To his ducal father's natural question young Churchill replied: "Mr. Jerome is a gentleman who is obliged to live in New York to look after his business. I do not know what...
...nation's first army, prayed in his white pew in Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. Before his decision to take command of the Virginia forces, Robert E. Lee prayed there in 1861. In Alexandria, at daybreak Thursday, the balding, vigorous, 34-year-old rector, the Rev. Edward Randolph Welles, summoned eight young men of the parish, gave them a Secret-Service-combed list of 250 parishioners' names, admission cards...