Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conventional histories the life of Michel Ney, cooper's son whose brilliance and bravery in the service of Napoleon raised him to be Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskowa and Marshal of France, ends before the guns of a firing squad in Luxembourg Gardens on Dec. 7, 1815. Called by Napoleon "the bravest of the brave," the hero of Elchingen, Friedland, Redinha, Borodino and the retreat from Moscow had sworn allegiance to Bourbon Louis XVIII on the Empire's fall, set out to bring Napoleon to Paris in an iron cage when he returned from Elba, joined...
...historic personages supposed to have survived their official deaths. A reputed mummy of John Wilkes Booth was long exhibited, with the tale that Lincoln's assassin escaped from the burning barn near Fredericksburg, Va., became a conscience-stricken wanderer, killed himself in Enid, Okla. in 1903 (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931). Some other legendary survivors: Louis Charles, Dauphin of France; Earl Kitchener; Tsar Nicholas II; Belgian Banker Alfred Lowenstein. As the years passed there grew up in the North Carolina countryside a firm belief that Peter Stuart Ney had actually been the Marshal of France. Amateur historians delved into...
...Sacred Mission." President of the Assembly was that famed little Czechoslovak, Dr. Eduard Benes, but he could not leave home, having been elected President of his Republic (TIME, Dec. 30). The Assembly therefore had to elect a President last week, chose Premier-Professor Paul van Zeeland of Belgium, who played an important backstairs role in promoting the Hoare-Laval deal which nearly made peace between Italy and Ethiopia last winter...
...avoid Edward VIII's being called King of Canada, King of New Zealand, King of Ireland, etc., his title is ingeniously compressed and arranged backward.* Last week His Majesty ordered that the actual situation created by enactment of the Statute of Westminster (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931 ) be squarely faced. Under this statute Edward VIII is a multiple monarch, separately King of each "country," separately acting upon the advice of its Premier. Therefore by royal command last week the age-old Coronation ceremonial will be overhauled and altered enough to make each Dominion feel that its King is being crowned...
Appointed. Gertrud Wettergren, able Swedish mezzo-soprano of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq.): to be court singer, by Sweden's King Gustav...