Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Edward's Coronation next May Sir Bindon Blood in his new role will be within not many arm's lengths of the famed Crown Jewels which his ancestor Colonel Thomas Blood, son of a well-to-do Irish blacksmith, succeeded in stealing from the Tower of London in 1671. With the help of two accomplices Colonel Blood overpowered the Keeper of the Regalia, hid the crown under his cloak. One of his friends seized the sceptre while the other stuffed the orb into his breeches. Before they had gone far the thieves were captured. Blood refused...
President de Valera's new Constitution. which would set up in the Free State a state wholly free, with the office of Governor-General abolished and all specific reference to the British Crown removed, will come before the Dail in the form of a Bill before Christmas. The Constitution contains provisions for the election directly by the people of a Chief Magistrate similar to the President of the U. S.; for a bicameral legislature in which the new Senate would be constituted not on party lines but on a functional "corporative state'' basis. "We do not, however...
...spouse will receive $200,000 per year. In what was considered an allusion by the King to this, the Speech from the Throne declared: "Members of the House of Commons, I thank you for the arrangements you have made for the maintenance of the honor and dignity of the Crown...
Pledge In Litchfield, III., Pastor L. A. Crown preached on "Litchfield's Worst Sin-Ingratitude," pledged husbands of the Union Avenue Christian Church to kiss their wives twice daily for six weeks...
...Belgians is no Rexist, His Majesty's speech drawing Belgium out of any close alliance with France (TIME, Oct. 26) was music to the ears of M. Degrelle. Some, not many, of the King's immediate entourage are Rexists. His Majesty's sister is the Crown Princess of Italy and quite simply the Belgian Royal Family have an impression that Catholicism combined with Fascism makes for social stability and is perhaps the best antidote to Communism in a Europe in which Democracy has been slipping...