Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street Police Court the Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Edward Hale Tindal Atkinson, applied for a summons against the Duke of Atholl for violation of the lotteries act. The judge granted it, calling His Grace before the grimy Bow Street bar next week to answer to the Crown for his wit. Atholl had popular British sympathy last week because everyone knew he had really been trying to save for British charities some of the vast sum that annually goes across the Irish Sea to the perfectly legal Irish Free State Hospitals Sweepstakes...
Before the rage of Primo de Rivera and King Alfonso, he fled to France in a monk's cassock. Later he made peace with the crown and nearly won himself a title through elaborate gifts to charity. Juan March bulwarked his tobacco fortune with banks, newspapers, a steamship line, and after the revolution won himself immunity from arrest by a seat in the Cortes...
...omitted)(ooo omitted) Allegheny Steel ....$303 $8260 Crown Cork & Seal. 971 247 General Foods 9,578 10,339 American Rolling Mill 312D 1,821D Remington Rand ... null 1,301D Bendix Aviation .... 1,096 367D U. S. Steel 28,0740 54,542D General Outdoor Advertising QiQD 1,6970 National Steel 2,569 1,308 Coca-Cola 8,342 8,802 The Bureau of Railway Economics reported the net operating revenue of 149 Class 1 railroads for the first nine months up to $340,000,000 from $197,000,000 a year ago. Whereas most oil companies did not show nine-month...
...Department of Romance Languages since 1911, was decorated by the Rumanian sovereign because of his interest and activity in diffusing knowledge of the language and literature of that country. He is already a Knight of the Legion of Honor of France and an Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy...
...produces nearly half the planes currently flown by the Royal Air Force. His rich business enabled Builder Sopwith to live in a mansion near Park Lane. After the death of his first wife, a daughter of 8th Baron Ruthven, in 1930 he sold the house to the Crown. (It is now occupied by Princess Mary and her husband, the 6th Earl of Harewood.) Last year he married Phyllis Brodie Gordon, a bright blonde with pretty teeth...