Word: rt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cannes, France, last week the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George and the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, both members of the Privy Council of King George VI, called and paid their respects to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Just before the Windsors returned this week to Paris, oldtime Actress Maxine Elliot (who two years ago rented her Hollywoodesque villa at Cannes to King Edward VIII for a holiday with Mrs. Simpson) entertained at dinner Privy Councilors Lloyd George & Churchill and the Duke & Duchess...
...Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and then proceeded from Washington to withdraw his support and wreck that conference, British public opinion was incensed. Soon afterward, however, the British began little by little to be dazzled by the bursting glory of the New Deal. Their own Cabinet, under the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and his budget-balancing Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, began to seem a group of humdrum stick-in-the-muds compared to the spectacular humanism radiating from the White House. During much of the short reign of Edward VIII those British subjects who admired what they considered...
Last week in Pittsburgh this old battle was once more raging. Its centre was the person of the fat, gimlet-eyed, Carpathian-born bishop of the Carpatho-Russians, Rt. Rev. Basil Takach. Sent to the U. S. in 1924, Bishop Takach had won instant approval by ordaining married men to the priesthood. But in 1929 another apostolic letter was issued by the Vatican, this one forbidding bishops to appoint married priests to Greek Rite posts. Bishop Takach obeyed the order, but in Bridgeport, Conn., a priest dared not only oppose it but circularized Greek Catholic churches to stir up more...
Married. Winifred Birkin War,. London socialite, divorced wife of Rt. Hon. William Dudley Ward, onetime (1917-22) Vice-Chamberlain of the King's Household; to Marquis de Casa Maury, Cuban operator of a Mayfair cinemansion; in London. Mrs. Ward for years was the favorite dancing partner and friend of the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales...
...briefly, produced, when the bishops gathered to vote behind closed doors, numerous other names. Of these write-in candidates, one 63-year-old showed such strength on the first ballot that he received a majority on the second, was then elected unanimously by both bishops and deputies. His name: Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Bishop of Virginia...