Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexandra Sczerbinska Pilsudska is the second wife of Poland's swashbuckling Marshal and benevolent Dictator, Josef Pilsudski...
...granted that he is the father and he is held, equally with the mother, responsible for the child's support. . . . The original Communist theory that the State should be responsible for children has been abandoned. It is still held [only] by such champions of free love as Alexandra Kollontai . . . now [Soviet] Minister to Norway (TIME...
...article on SPAIN in TIME, Sept. 26. It is certainly tragic that all King Alfonso's sons should be practically invalids. Of course the bad blood comes through Queen Victoria of Spain's father, Prince Henry of Battenberg, who was a Hesse-Darmstadt like Empress Alexandra of Russia, and her only son, Tsarevitch Alexis, had hemophilia as Crown Prince Alfonso has. Also Queen Victoria of Spain's two brothers were both delicate and died young, Prince Maurice and Prince Leopold of Battenberg, only her eldest brother Alexander (now Marquess of Carisbrooke in England) is alive. Gossip...
...Paris; that he was an intimate of Premier Raymond Poincare of France; that he was an intimate of onetime (1917 & 1925) French Premiers Paul Painlevé and (1924-25 & 1926) Edouard Herriot, with whom in 1921 he helped organize the now moribund Ligue de la Republique to fight Alexandra Millerand's Bloc National and establish a policy of democratic post-War reconstruction. M. Rist has been Deputy Governor of the Banque de France for only the past year. He is one of Europe's most profound economists...
...time smart and sumptuous, in the Netherlands, will usually be found to appertain to that great lady, the Queen Mother Emma. Her daughter, Queen Wilhelmina, is undoubtedly more popular, more Dutch, more well-beloved; but the Queen Mother is Royal, as though by Right Divine-in the manner of Alexandra, late British Queen Mother. Therefore last week it was naturally Queen Emma who received at Castle Soest Dyk, her summer residence, a lady who is the consort of Wilhelm II and is known in the Netherlands as "Empress" Hermine...