Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martha Van Rensselaer. founder of the College of Home Economics at Cornell University, and State leader of the New York Home Demonstration work. Miss Van Rensselaer was the recipient of many honors, both at home and abroad, for distinguished service, among them the Chevalier Order of the Crown conferred by the King of Belgium. In 1923 she was elected by the League of Women Voters as one of America's 12 greatest women...
Having less to do than other men, most Kings & Crown Princes are practical jokers. Thus Edward of Wales once sat down on the Royal Spanish "squirt bench," was soused by streams of water from concealed nozzles (TIME, May 30, 1927). Recently Naples learned of an elaborate joke which Crown Prince Umberto has been playing off & on at night ever since he and his Belgian-born Crown Princess moved into their ancient but gorgeously refurbished palace overlooking Naples' blue...
...state of affairs. A foreign loan must be floated somehow, and without signing away the vast undeveloped oilfields at Tokar. Questions of the royal succession are also troubling Stephan. His eldest son Dushan had renounced his royal birthright to marry an American, and now is dead. Milan, the present Crown Prince, who shoots horses out of his way rather than walk around them, is suspected of conniving with Italy to hand over the Tokar oilfields, is suspected of being a bastard as well. Prince Marko, a pretender, also threatens to make the Illyrian throne rock as soon as the huge...
...Manoel was a king for two and a half years of his 42. In his 19th year in 1908, revolutionists stormed the carriage in which he was riding with his father King Carlos and brother Crown Prince Louis Philippe, shot the King and Crown Prince to death. Manoel was crowned three months later. In 1910 a second revolution sent him scurrying to Gibraltar. Dom Manoel, who had never wanted to be a king, was quite satisfied when the republic allowed him to keep his property, valued at some $50,000,000. He led a pleasant life as the royal lover...
...weeks at Chicago, Wall Street experienced a flurry in the shares of companies most likely to be benefited by a change in the law. The group of stocks Wall Street has come to call the "Wet Shares" includes Owens-Illinois Glass Co., National Distillers Products, American Commercial Alcohol, Crown Cork & Seal, Park & Tilford. Neatly timed to coincide with the Wet flurry was a $1,000,000 offering of shares in a brewery, the first sale of a brewery stock since...