Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith has administered the $50,000,000 League loan to Hungary in such a manner as to balance the Hungarian budget and stabilize the Hungarian crown. Though taxes in Hungary are still crushingly heavy, the cost of living has steadily declined during the Smith regime. It was anticipated that he would require 2½ years to balance the Hungarian budget. Six months sufficed him. He spent less than one-fifth of the stabilization loan...
...unquenchable revolutionary activities by a popular demonstration without its like in the history of Peru. His official "coronation" at Lima as "Poet of America" followed amid a general public festival. President Leguia, "the bantam Mussolini of Peru" (TIME, Dec. 7), bestowed upon him a golden laurel crown. With unique audacity he suggested that "the crown would be improved by the addition of a sufficient number of emeralds to give it a leafy green appearance." A subscription was raised. The emeralds were added...
...What American poet demanded and secured emeralds for his golden laurel crown...
Lest this should seem a modicum of accomplishment to crown the labors of many men for almost a month, there was also drafted, passed and recorded a definition of "potentials of war." This voluminous document contained all the pigs, fogs, birth rates, etc. . . . etc. . . . etc. . . . originally proposed for inclusion under "armaments...
From the time the royal party crossed the Massachusetts state line a whirlwind tour has been in order. The morning's program is typical of the general daily procedure since the Crown Prince and Princess arrived in this country...