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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continents"; of influenza; in Monte Carlo. Her real name was Emelie Charlotte ("Lillie") Le Breton. She was born in St. Helier, Isle of Jersey, the daughter of the very Reverend Dean of the Isle. She had six brothers. To the island, in a tempest, came Irish yachtsman Edward Langtry, son of a Belfast ship-merchant. He was offered refuge with the Le Bretons, fell in love with the gloriously budding daughter, married her two years later, took her to London. There, in her 20's, she neglected Husband Langtry for social acclaim climaxed by the openly effusive attentions...
...Father of the British Navy"; in London. Admiral Fremantle was the only surviving flag officer born in the reign of William IV. He entered the Royal Navy in 1849, serving on the three-decker Queen. His grandfather, Thomas Fremantle, captained the Neptune at Trafalgar (1805) under Lord Nelson. His son, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, retired last year. Admiral Sir Edmund's snowy whiskers often festooned a royal carriage at the opening of Parliament. On his gist birthday he criticized the wary tactics of Admiral Jellicoe at Jutland (1916). "When you see ships," he stated, "you are supposed...
...they have departed from the House and Senate, respectively. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, Secretary Mellon's haggard, Princeton-educated protege, might stand as the senatorial moneyman. In the House are New York's Snell, a florid, solid cheesemaker; Rhode Island's Richard S. Aldrich, son of the late great Senator Nelson Aldrich; and Pennsylvania's Harry Estep, a young Mellonite member of the Ways & Means Committee...
Melville Elijah Stone was the son of a Methodist minister. At the age of nine he learned to set type. ... At 28, he organized a company to publish the Chicago Daily News as a penny newspaper. Pennies were not then in wide circulation in Chicago, so Publisher Stone had several barrels of them shipped from the Philadelphia mint. He also persuaded merchants to sell some of their goods at penny-stimulating prices...
Nonpartisanship was almost a mania with General Manager Stone. If he had political opinions, no one else in the Associated Press knew them. When his son Herbert went down with the German-torpedoed Lusitania, he insisted on A. P. neutrality...