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Fourteen years ago U. S. District Judge Edwin Ruthven Holmes of Mississippi sentenced Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo to 30 days in jail for refusing to testify at the trial of his political mate, Governor Lee Maurice Russell, on charges of seducing a State Capitol stenographer. Last week Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo had his chance to get even, with Judge Holmes. His nomination to be United States Circuit Judge, Fifth Circuit, was up for Senate confirmation...
...Briton frequently seen by Queen Victoria, King Edward and King George is the new Governor General put forward by Mr. Lyons last week, soldierly Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven, brother of the ninth Baron Ruthven whose Scottish title dates from 1487. Sir Alexander was born in George Windsor's name town, Windsor, schooled at Eton across the Thames, decorated by Queen Victoria for bravery as a camel corps commander in the Sudan, and sent to Australia by King Edward as Military Secretary to its Governor General in 1908. Desperately wounded at Gallipoli, he received the D. S. O. from King...
Well-timed was the University's reminder of its 52 functions. Currently, President Alexander Grant Ruthven is trying to get the State Legislature to up the University's annual appropriation from $3,200,000 to about...
...Sopwith's first wife, a daughter of the 8th Baron Ruthven, died. The present Mrs. Sopwith, whom he married two years ago, is an expert deep-sea fisherwoman, last year caught a 640-lb. tuna in British waters after a 6-hour struggle. As enthusiastic about sailing as her husband, Mrs. Sopwith will be the first woman ever to help man a boat in an America's Cup race. Her job will be time keeper. At the start, with a stopwatch in each hand, she will let her husband know how many seconds he has before Endeavour can cross...
...Newfoundland. Their company, now named H. G. Hawker Engineering Co. Ltd., produces nearly half the planes currently flown by the Royal Air Force. His rich business enabled Builder Sopwith to live in a mansion near Park Lane. After the death of his first wife, a daughter of 8th Baron Ruthven, in 1930 he sold the house to the Crown. (It is now occupied by Princess Mary and her husband, the 6th Earl of Harewood.) Last year he married Phyllis Brodie Gordon, a bright blonde with pretty teeth...