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...Bart.; b. 12 June 1897; m. 1923, Beatrice Helen, d. of Hon. Sir Gervase Beckett, 1st Bart.; two s. Educ.: Eton, Christ Church, Oxford; B.A. First Class Honours (Oriental languages), 1922. Formerly Captain King's Royal Rifle Corps; served World War, 1915-19, with his regiment, and as G.S.O.3, and as Brigade Major (M.C.) ; contested Spennymoor Division of Durham, 1922; attended Imperial Press Conference, Melbourne, 1925; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Austen Chamberlain, K.G.), 1926-29; Parliamentary Under Secretary, Foreign Office, 1931-33; Lord Privy Seal, 1934-35; Minister without Portfolio for League...
...spite of decolletage, diamonds and decorative elegance on view in the boxes, the most colorful costumes were in the ring. This year the Horse Show had brought to Manhattan its most successful feature to date, 40 members of Canada's crack cavalry unit, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, senior regiment of Canada's Army...
...Used by all dragoons since the original dragoon regiment was formed in Hungary during the 15th Century...
...mental struggle that went on within the independent Chapayev before he accepted the civilian, as an equal has been strongly painted by Mme. Furmanov and is acted with a power only excelled by the climax, in which a white regiment sacrifices itself in an attempt to break the morale of the Reds. For the first time in Soviet photoplay, justice has been done to their stalwart opponents, and the scene of the psychological charge, with White troops marching stoically, awesomely to their death, is typical of the Russian mind and its grim realism...
...night life, married a divorced woman, the Grand Duchess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt (an offense for which he was temporarily banished from Russia). In the Russo-Japanese War he was blown up on the Petropavlovsk at Port Arthur. When the 1917 Revolution began, he placed himself and his regiment at the service of the Duma, fled when Kerensky and the Provisional Government fell...