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Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden (G. C. B., G. C. V. O., K. C. M. G., C. V. O., A. D. C.), erstwhile Commander -in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, was promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet, the highest rank in the Royal Navy...
Queen Marie is the daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, uncle of George V, and of Grand Duchess Marie, daughter of Tsar Alexander III of Russia. She is, therefore, first cousin to King George, by birth a Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, by Royal Proclamation a Windsor,* by marriage a Hohenzollern, having married into the Catholic branch of that family when she became the bride of Crown Prince Ferdinand of Rumania...
...V-1 is 341 ft. 6 in. over all, 27 ft. 6⅝ in. in breadth, and has a surface displacement of 2,164 tons. Her speed on the surface is to be 21 knots, and submerged, 9 knots. Her complement will consist of 7 officers...
...Baltic (White Star)−Marc Klaw, theatrical producer; L. V. Bright, President of the Lawyers' Title & Trust Co.; Frederick Whelan, principal lecturer for the League of Nations Union; Mrs. Bula Edmundsen Croker, widow of the late chieftain of Tammany Hall...
Although his clients have been J. P. Morgan & Co., the New York Telephone Co., the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, the U. S. Rubber Co., the Associated Press,* other clients have been "Mother" Jones and Eugene V. Debs, the National Window Glass Workers' Union, the Irish Free State. As a member of the Judiciary Committee of the House in the 62nd Congress, he sponsored the 'Clayton Act which declared that labor unions could not be prosecuted under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. As Solicitor General he upheld the Adamson Eight-Hour Law for railroad employes and prosecuted...