Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Don Miguel, Duke of Braganca, 75, pretender to the crown of Portugal, father-in-law of the onetime Miss Anita Stewart,* daughter of rich William Rhinelander Stewart of New York, at Chateau Seebenstein near Vienna...
...blessing of the day before still fresh on his head, exclaimed: "This is the most beautiful day of my life!" Forthwith he stepped into his monoplane, the Columbia, in which sat Captain W. R. Hinchcliffe, pilot, ready to guide the plane on its flight to Venice. A passenger, the Duke of Orleans, rode with them...
...from the grammar schools, all the Ministerial posts are filled by generals." To this assertion the Ambassador countered by giving a complete list of the present Cabinet with the origin and profession of each member. Snappishly he concluded: "Total, nine Ministers, of whom three are generals [Primo de Rivera, Duke of Tetuan, Martinez Anido], and no one of them is a professor from the grammar schools...
Another $10,000 prize went unclaimed. Prospective entries in a non-stop race from New York to Spokane dropped out so that when starting time came only Eddie Stinson and C. A. (Duke) Schiller hopped off. Both flew Stinson-Detroiter monoplanes, manufactured in Stinson's name in Detroit. Both, nearly there, dropped in Montana. After flying all night through difficult weather, Mr. Schiller was forced down at Billings, almost out of gas, Mr. Stinson reached Missoula, which has a flying field, with his motor balking from a stuck valve. Fearing wild intervening country, he decided not to chance...
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