Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...historians have held that "Serbia was the only nation which really profited by the War." In 1918 the Serbian throne became that of Jugoslavia, "a little empire"; and on Aug. 16, 1921 Prince Regent Alexander became His Majesty Alexander I, King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Jugoslavs...
...Tomislav, 13 months. The King and Prince Peter are extremely popular, notably cheerful. As for Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, she has confided to one or two newspaperwomen, among them the wife of a U. S. novelist famed for flaying Babbitts, much which they have never put into despatches. On Aug. 25, 1926, the Associated Press carried Her Majesty's reply to the question: "How does it feel to be a queen...
...Contemptibles." To this day Britons who fought in France during 1914 proudly refer to themselves collectively, as "The Old Contemptibles." This they do because on Sept. 24, 1914 they read in the British Expeditionary Force Routine Orders of the day that on Aug. 19, 1914 the Kaiser declared, in a General Order issued from German Headquarters, Aix-la-Chapelle...
Arthur Chester Millspaugh, who was Administrator General of Persian Finances until he quarreled with the Finance Minister of King Rega Pahlevi (TIME, Aug. 8, 1927), resigned last week as Financial Ad viser to the Republic of Haiti, a post which he has held since 1927. Ever inclined to be secretive, Professor Mills paugh declined to indicate the reason...
...1919?to Brazil; Jan. 1922?Antwerp, thence to South Africa; Dec. 1923?World Tour. (New York. Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Naples and home); Dec. 1924?Cuba: May 1925?Italy; Jan. 1926?Yucatan (to study Mayans); Jan. 1927?South America (Bolivia, Montevideo, Argentina, etc.); Jan. 1928? Panama. Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala; Aug. 1928 ?Europe; Jan. 1929?Switzerland...