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...full name of this 0. M. S. was announced as "The Organization for the Maintenance of Supplies"; and several peers, among them Admiral Lord Jellicoe, Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, Viscount Falkland, Major General Lord Scarbrough, Lord. Ranfurly, Admiral Sir Alexander Duff, Lieut.-General Sir Francis Lloyd, stood sponsor for what would seem to be a most ambitious attempt at organizing the country to protect and feed itself, in case of a national emergency...
Died. Geraldine Mary (Mrs. Alfred) Harmsworth, 86, mother of the late Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper genius; in Hall Totteridge, near London...
...grouse season came round once more. Trains bound for the country were packed with shooters leaving London. Those for Scotland were running in three parts to supply the demand. The King and Queen visited Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, her husband, at Goldsborough Hall in Yorkshire en route for Balmoral, the King's private residence in Scotland. Before leaving the metropolis, which was several days after the shooting began, Their Majesties received a gift of several brace "to comfort them for not being among the grouse-shooting sportsmen." The Maharaja of Patiala, who is stopping in London in royal...
Many good people who have all their lives been governed by the polity of this resonant sentiment were amazed at the impotent efforts of that angry septuagenarian, Viscount Gladstone, and his elder brother, Henry N. Gladstone, to refute the slurs cast upon the name of the celebrated statesman, their late father, by "an insolent varlet, a professional mud-spatterer, a cowardly bootlicker" named Captain Peter Wright in his recent book, Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, Aug. 3, COMMONWEALTH). "Why don't they sue the stinking reptile?" such people have exclaimed in the vehemence of their sympathy...
...Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister. Viscount d'Alte, Portuguese Minister...