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...state and beneath a canopy that screens him from nearly all, he whisks off the red robe that he has been wearing, passes it briskly to the Lord Great Chamberlain, who was supposed to divest him ceremoniously. The Lord Great Chamberlain looks bewildered. Lady Reading, widow of the onetime Viceroy of India, observes: "Like a man handing his bathrobe to a valet.". . . In a Yorkshire cave 300 ft. underground a knot of people sit round a radio, listening intently. They are members of the British Speleological (scientific cave study) Society...
This afternoon at 2:20 o'clock Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the Viceroy of India, and the Premiers of all dominions will speak...
...were given an entirely new setup of their provincial governments. The province called "Bombay Presidency" is by itself two-and-a-half times the size of England and five times more populous than Scotland. Thus a change of greatest magnitude was performed last week at New Delhi by the Viceroy & Governor General of India, an able Scottish banker, His Excellency the Most Hon. the Marquess of Linlithgow. Instead of saying presto-chango, the Viceroy caused his weekly Gazette to swell up for the occasion into a big book...
...miracle of persuasion," to which dignitaries of His Majesty's Government looked this week to bulwark the prestige of Stanley Baldwin on the eve of his slated retirement from the post of Prime Minister next month, must now be worked by Viceroy the Marquess of Linlithgow, and great should be His Excellency's reward for quick success...
Died, The Hon. Hersey Alice Eveleigh de Moleyns Hope, Dowager Marchioness Linlithgow, mother of the Viceroy of India (see p. 22); in Lausanne, Switzerland...