Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minister of Food?Count Kanitz...
...position of the Marx Government was that it had already alienated the Nationalists by refusing them a place in the Cabinet. The Socialists openly refused to back Marx, but there was some hope that they would recant and maintain a dutiful neutrality. This means that the Government can count upon 193 votes to 87 from the Opposition, but if the Socialists should decide to oppose Chancellor Marx, the Government will immediately find itself in a minority; in any case it will be at the tender mercies of the Socialists...
...Goto, "Roosevelt of Japan" and present Minister of Home Affairs, resigned when he heard the news, but was subsequently persuaded by Premier Count Yamamoto to remain in office. Dr. Beard, foreseeing the drastic cuts, left Tokyo in despair a week previously. The press expressed keen disappointment, but the Tokyoans were reported to be interested only in "the earliest possible resumption of former activities...
...mysterious Colonel Elston," as he is generally termed, because little is known of him. went to Russia in the 17th Century and gained the friendship and confidence of Peter the Great. Later General Felix Nicholaievitch Elston great-grandson of Colonel Elston, married the heiress of the last Count of Sumarokov and received permission from Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855) to use the name of Sumarokov-Elston. It was their son who married Princess Yusupov, the sole heiress of the fabulously rich and eccentric Prince Nicholas Yusupov (grandfather...
Robert E. Lee. John Drinkwater has once more placed his fingers on the pulse of American history and attempted to count the heartbeats of a nation. He has by no means duplicated the brilliance of his first attempt which brought back to the world again a living Lincoln...