Word: constantine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cksburg was born on the Island of Corfu on June 10, 1921. In 1863 his grandfather, Prince William of Denmark, had become Greece's King George I. Philip was sixth in line to the Greek throne. But a year after Philip's birth, his uncle, King Constantin, was tossed off the throne. Philip, his parents and his sisters* became exiles. With his family, Philip sailed to England, where his mother's father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, had gained fame in the days before World War I as Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty. From then...
Greek consular officials in the U.S. were fussed. Said one: "Very mysterious . . . extremely peculiar. . . ." Said another: "Anything is possible." In Athens, Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris ordered an investigation. The Times speculated that the Greek senders might be victims of "an unfriendly ideology whose followers are spreading propaganda on the bad state of affairs in America...
...that assistance. The crux was a U.S. plan to clean the Augean stable of Greece's economy, and, specifically, the U.S.'s intention to control what kind of goods the notoriously inefficient Greek Government ought to buy with the U.S. loan. Premier Demetrios Maximos and Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris, in an interview with the New York Times, pointedly expressed their hope that the U.S. would restrict itself to an "advisory" role. In the past, the Government had persistently ignored any such advice offered by Britain, had imported picture magazines, chocolate, cosmetics and combs (now there are enough combs...
Greek Premier Constantin Tsaldaris has been called (with some justification) a stupid reactionary. Even stupid reactionaries sometimes make sense. Last week, fat Dino Tsaldaris made sense...
...that she needed a king, surveyed Europe's better princelings. They chose Otto of Bavaria, one of the highly unstable Wittelsbachs, who took 30 years to get himself dethroned. Next choice was a 17-year-old Prince of Denmark, who reigned 50 years, but was assassinated; his son Constantin was twice exiled, his grandson Alexander died after being bitten by his pet monkey; and his grandson George II has been in exile twice to date...