Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty the Queen Mother graciously surrendered last week to Her Majesty the Queen the $750,000 Kohinoor diamond of 106 carats. It has been the chief jewel of Queen Mary's Crown, now goes into new Queen Elizabeth's new crown on which London platinumsmiths are rushing work. By an unprecedented alteration in British rules of precedence the extremely popular Queen Mother was last week slated to drive ahead of the King & Queen in the Coronation procession. At previous Coronations it has been customary for a Queen Mother to make no public appearance...
Year ago the little art museum of Bonn on the Rhine cleared out of its cellars a collection of pictures that had been gathering dust for nearly 30 years, put them up at public auction in nearby Cologne. One grimy picture of a plump young woman in a gilt crown and scepter went up on the block and was knocked down for 700 marks ($300) to Dutch Dealer David Katz. Back to Amsterdam, after 270 years, the picture went. It was cleaned and instantly recognized as the original Juno-a bargain at $250,000. In search of some such price...
Mussolini's small-statured sovereign Vittorio Emanuele III canceled at Rome last week the Italian delegation headed by Crown Prince Umberto which was to have represented His Majesty at the British Coronation. Reason: Vittorio Emanuele III and his subjects, including Il Duce, are united in considering His Majesty not only King of Italy but also Emperor of Ethiopia, united too in refusing to stomach what they call the "British insult" de livered when George VI invited Haile Selassie to send a native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure...
...offended some Catholic leaders by its personal onslaughts and was ostracized. Followed a noisy Rexist campaign against the "banksters" - financial powers behind the Government. Already Degrelle was holding hundreds of meetings, had thousands of followers, saluting each other with out stretched arms, wearing red armbands with the cross and crown of Christus Rex in black. Rexism is "against all political parties," mildly antiSemitic. It acknowledges the cultural differences between the "Walloons" (French-speaking Belgians) and the "Flamigantes" (Flemish Nationalists who want a separate autonomous government), contends that the "Flamigantes" should not be obliged to learn French...
...Fairbanks, Alaska, hockey, snowshoeing, skiing, curling, fireworks and a beauty contest were part of an international goodwill and progress celebration which wound up with a 16-mi. all-comers' dog race. Wearing a gold and ivory crown, Beauty Queen Marguerite Lee saw John Allen's team of "Irish Wolves" (Malemute, Irish setter and wolf stock) win, on average time for three heats...