Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 150 witnesses are expected to be called, and there is a possibility that these will include Cardinal Faulhaber, ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht, ex-Dictator Gustav von Kahr. The Bavarian authorities were taking the utmost precautions against interference...
Under the leadership of the noted publicist, Wilhelm Hall-Halfen, a concerted effort was being made to run ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm for President of the German Republic. Said Hall-Halfen: "We do not expect that Prince Wilhelm will accept now, but 3,000,000 German voters are already behind him, with more joining daily. The recent State Assembly elections prove that German sentiment is swinging toward the Right, which will aid the Prince Wilhelm campaign by making his candidacy irresistible...
...Crown Prince seems to frown upon politics. "The Prince," it was reported, "only goes deer hunting occasionally; and if he goes to Breslau he returns to Oels as quietly as he came. This makes the chances of the Crown Prince very poor indeed...
From 1431 until 1912 Albania, a small country on the Adriatic Sea, was under Turkish rule. Two years later the Crown of Albania was offered to and accepted by the German Prince Wilhelm of Wied, but as soon as the War broke out (and before a Constitution had been framed) he fled back to Germany. Albania fell into a state of anarchy and was invaded by Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Austria. Her independence was again declared in 1917 and since then the Government has been in the hands of a Constituent Assembly and a Council of Regents, composed of representatives...
...crown one's mortification, our friends the English look us over and volunteer the information that Americans are a lawless lot. Lawless, forsooth Americans are the most law-ridden, law-encumbered people on the earth. With frenzied politicians catering first to the prejudices of one group having the natural breadth and average intelligence of a CroMagnon man and again to the hysteria of some other group with somewhat the same qualifications, a maze of laws has been constructed which is impossible to respect if it is understood and still more impossible to obey if it is not understood. To make...