Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigator Fritchey followed closely the Grand Jury's graveyard probe. One day, while looking over the subpoenaed books of the Crown Hill Cemetery, Investigator Fritchey, who is fond of detective stories, noted that a block of 1,400 graves had been sold for $82,000 to a Mr. Dacek. Into Investigator Fritchey's mind flashed the astounding possibility that this curious name might be an anagram for that of a Cleveland policeman whom he had long suspected of undue prosperity. The Cuyahoga County prosecutors shortly found that Investigator Fritchey's hunch was correct. "Dacek" was one Louis...
...Last week at Haifa the Conquered Lion of Judah walked up the gangplank of another British cruiser, the Capetown, which was to take him to Gibraltar. Thence he was expected to make his own way to London. Again the fuzzy little papillon pattered at his heels. Farther behind followed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan and his 12-year-old brother, the Duke of Harar, both tricked out in European sack suits and derbies. The roly-poly Empress Menen remained in Jerusalem. The Emperor's party significantly traveled, not on League of Nations passports or British laissez-passer cards...
First ashore went the dumpy Empress Menen, her two daughters, the 12-year-old Duke of Harar and Crown Prince Asfa Wassan. Then down the gangplank, to the mournful tweetle of the boatswain's pipe, stepped little Haile Selassie in a sun helmet and a long white cloak. The Carnaro's band burst into the Fascist anthem: Giovinezza! A British military band hurriedly sprayed the air with a brassy countermelody. With the little Emperor was his "good" son-in-law, Ras Desta Demtu, and Ras Kassa, who fought the Italians in the north. Sharp eyes could find...
...bank manager. Together they went over the inventory of the treasure on which the Emperor must live for the rest of his life.What he brought on the Enterprise was estimated at a little over $5,000,000. One important item was already safely in a London vault, the imperial crown of Ethiopia. Solid gold, weighing more than three pounds, studded like a plum cake with rubies, diamonds, sapphires, it was shipped out of Addis Ababa before the fall of the city seemed imminent. To be nearer this last badge of authority left him, Haile Selassie was prepared to leave Jerusalem...
...asked the District of Columbia Supreme Court to order the Bureau of Immigration to grant him a "derivative citizenship." In his petition the ranking U. S. poloist stated that, although he was born in England in 1906, his mother, Amy Phipps of Pittsburgh, never swore allegiance to the British Crown, separated from her British husband in 1919 and returned to the U. S. Having voted, sworn allegiance to the U. S. when he joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Yale, run for the New York State Senate in 1934, Poloist Guest was dismayed when he was declared an immigrant...