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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. His Highness Raj Rishi Shri Sewai Sir Jey Singhji Veerendra Shiromani Dev, Bharat Dharam Prabhakar, 55, Maharaja of Alwar, exiled in 1933 by the British after an agrarian uprising for which he was held responsible; of apoplexy, possibly resulting from hip and shoulder fractures received when he fell down a stairway upon leaving a squash court; in Paris. He traveled with 400 trunks and a retinue of 25, including an orchestra...
...Pedro, Calif., Scot Comedian Sir Harry Lauder, 66, disembarked from a Pacific cruise financed, he chortled, by 10? pieces saved up during his career...
Just before he sailed home on the Normandie last week, taciturn, tweedy Sir George Ernest Schuster, chairman of the board of Lipton, Ltd., received newshawks in his suite at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and imparted to them a bit of last-minute information. Last February, said Sir George, he had become president of Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., when the stock of that U. S. company had been wholly acquired by his English corporation. Why his election had not been announced before he did not explain, observed vaguely: "There never has been a time when the strengthening of economic ties...
Recently hung in the eighteenth century gallery at the Fogg Museum is a family group by the English artist, Arthur Devis. The work is entitled Sir Josiah Vanneck and his Family...
...Hall of Nations was launched two months ago with a ball in Washington's Mayflower Hotel. With Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, the New Deal's new Minister to Norway (see p. 13), as chairman, and such diplomatic bigwigs as Great Britain's Sir Ronald Lindsay and France's Georges Bonnet in the receiving line, the ball produced funds for two fellowships. Onetime (1929-33) Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson awarded these by lot to Czechoslovakia and Nicaragua...