Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birthday. Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy; at Rome. Age: 60. Because of the Lateran Treaty (TIME, Feb. 18), and his only son Crown Prince Umberto's engagement to Princess Marie Jose of Belgium (TIME, Nov. 4) great was Roman rejoicing...
...King-Emperor received a string of Ministers, including Ministress o;f Labor Miss Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, onetime starveling clerk in a draper's shop. Cheerful and quietly dressed, she entered Buckingham Palace as the first of her sex ever summoned there officially as a Minister of the Crown...
...backers, Poincare and Clemenceau, both too old and sick to take the helm. With sound strategy, M. Tardieu shifted from foreign affairs to a masterful address on internal agrarian and financial policy. That turned the scale. For years M. Tardieu has been called Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), designated to succession by the fiscal genius who saved and stabilized the franc, M. Raymond Poincare (TIME, Jan. 3. 1927). Last week the Deputies were apparently convinced at last that the new Prime Minister is indeed a second Poincare, a strong and jealous guardian of the foreign rights and fiscal integrity...
...Edith Rockefeller McCormick's diamond necklace which hung to her waist once belonged among the Russian crown jewels...
...face of things his "republicans of good will" commanded no certain majority, last week, but Le Dauphin boldly announced that he would wait five days before facing the Chamber, and in that interval it was entirely possible that the deputies could be cajoled and dazzled into enthroning "the crown prince...