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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Esme is a scion of the Catholic branch of that excessively ancient family, founded by one William Howard, a Norfolk lawyer, in the 13th Century, which is now headed by Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Esme Speaks | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Married. Miss Ann Woodruff Stetson, daughter of Mrs. G. Henry Stetson, onetime (1926) national Women's Golf Champion, and granddaughter of the late John Batter son Stetson (hats) and niece of John Batterson Stetson Jr., U. S. Minister to Poland since 1925; to Paul Norris, 19, Philadelphia scion, following an elopement to Chestertown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Philip Sassoon, a handsome, immaculate Jew, has had an astounding career for a man of his age. Scion of two immensely wealthy families? the Sassoons and the Rothschilds?he is one of the richest men in England. His enemies ascribe much of his rapid advancement to his money, although all who know him have called him able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sassoon-a- Visiting | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...Prittwitz, as he likes to be known, is 44 years old, scion of an old Prussian family, the son of Colonel Max von Prittwitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Ambassador | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke and Earl and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Norfolk, Baron Maltravers, Baron FitzAlan, Baron Clun, Baron Oswaldestre, 19-year-old scion of one of England's oldest families, Roman Catholic, last week "flunked" responsions-college entrance examination at Oxford. The young Duke has never been to school, but has been "educated" privately by a tutor. It may have been argued that his aristocratic lineage entitled him to many privileges, but Oxford has long been noted for its democratic independence. Magdalen College refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Flunked | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

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