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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Mrs. Margaret Rutherford, onetime wife of Undersecretary of Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills and of Sir Paul Dukes; to Prince Charles Murat; in Paris...
...Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, was compelled to remain temporarily in or near the capital because of rapid naval disarmament developments. He. longed to get away to the usual British summer embassy at Manchester-by-the-Sea. Mass. French Ambassador Paul Claudel was likewise unable to escape because of the necessity of negotiating a postponement of the French debt settlement...
...House of Commons and had perforce to become a peer because the English Parliamentary system demands that a Cabinet Minister sit in one House or the other. Also announced last week were the customary "dissolution honors," bestowed by King George at the request of the outgoing Conservative ministry. Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, fussy Home Secretary in the Baldwin Cabinet, whose battles against Prayer Book revision and sex novels have made him a national caricature, became Viscount Brentford. Viscount Peel (Rt. Hon. William Robert Wellesley Peel), onetime Secretary of State for India, was gazetted an earl...
Died. The Rt. Hon. Sir Beilby Francis Alston, 60, British Ambassador to Brazil, onetime Chargé d'Affaires at Peking; in London...
...When Sir Wilfred Grenfell left Wiscasset, Me., last fortnight aboard his motor yacht Maraval, bound for his annual summer missionary work in Labrador, he took as usual several college boys to do Labra-chores. This year two of them are Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (Dartmouth) and Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (Princeton), grandsons of John Davison Rockefeller...