Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...erroneously reported by the press that the 1,000,000 mark note will be the largest paper unit in the world, outside Russian rubles. For many months Austria has circulated 5,000,000 crown notes...
From the Stygian gloom of unutterable chaos, Chancellor Seipel and his satellites have lifted Austria to the dawn of better days. The crown has remained stable for months on end, when the currencies of some neighboring countries fluctuated widely. The number of civil servants has been reduced from...
...action was recently brought against the Yugo-Slavian Government by Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the late Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and wife of Prince Otto Windischgratz, over the island of Lacroma, near Ragusa on the Dalmatian coast...
Married. Alfred J. Kvale, saxophone player and son of the Rev. O. J. Kvale (who defeated Andrew J. Volstead in the Congressional election in Minnesota last Fall), to Ethel Virginia ("Billie") Stanfield, former Follies actress, at Crown Point, Ind., an elopement. Representative Kvale bestowed his paternal blessing...
There always exists the possibility that a family may fall back on the deeds of its ancestors and live for generations on the dignity of a title. But in England, fortunately, there is no limit to the number of peerages that can be created by the crown, and consequently new blood is being brought in to strengthen the institution. The Scottish peerage, where no increase is permitted, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past...