Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time since the War, ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm strutted about Potsdam in uniform. He, his eldest son and his brother Eitel, attended the centenary of the founding of the non-commissioned officers' school, after which a war memorial was unveiled and the troops paraded once again before a scion of the House of Hohenzollern. Monarchist flags were everywhere...
Michalakopoulos, with surprise : "You surely do not imagine that we shall crown your work...
...better than the Monarchy. It was, perhaps, so far as it concerned foreign affairs, the price which Greece had to pay for getting rid of the royal house at the only time it was of any use to her; for one of King Georgos' sisters was the Crown Princess of Rumania, the King's wife was a daughter of the King and Queen of Rumania and one of the King's brothers-in-law was the King of Yugo-Slavia. Queen Marie of Rumania had cleverly set the stage for strong Balkan alliance. It was natural, after the republican "doings...
...Council, last week, Mr. Smith said that there would be a budgetary surplus for the year ending June 30 and that consequently not one heller (1/100 of a crown) of" the 100,000,000 reserve had been utilized. Moreover, he averred that he could draft a budget for the coming year that would show a surplus. Excellent prospects for agriculture, the mainstay of the Hungarian Kingdom, were also reported...
...Council, unanimously accepting Mr. Smith's report, sanctioned an agricultural loan of 30,000,000 gold crowns out of the 100,000,000 gold crown fund which had been saved...