Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, many a mine owner let it lie negligently for a moment beside his plate. Perhaps it might contain a new outburst against the miners by half bald and otherwise red-headed Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill. There was no sentimentality about "Winnie"-a grandson of the Seventh Duke of Marlborough. A little loud, perhaps, but "Winnie" would keep the Cabinet on the coal owners' side while Premier Baldwin was away...
...passed to another locked bedroom door. Impassive but expectant the royal attendants waited. Would Her Majesty order that room disturbed? On the bureau had lain undisturbed for more than three decades a little pile of silver and copper coins. They had been left there carelessly by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, before he contracted influenza and died at Sandringham (1892). He, the eldest son of Edward and Alexandra (then Prince and Princess of Wales) was heir presumptive to the British Crown. Moreover his betrothal to Princess Mary of Teck had been announced and touted as a love...
...death, the Princess ("bowed with grief in her first youth" according to Victorian journalists) summoned all her self possession and was married, 18 months later, to her late fiance's brother, who became George V. Did Her Majesty recall last week the notoriously blameless life of the late Duke of Clarence whose official biographer, J. Edmund Vincent, could find nothing worse to say of him than that at Cambridge he "went at shocking hours...
...Majesty, personally wielding a broom and duster according to despatches, assisted with the sweeping, tidying, supervised the packing, indicated that the ornate decorations of the late Duke's bedroom should be torn out and replaced by a simple decor in cream and blue...
...next problem was to find cheat) electric power. This, it happened, was easy. Tobacco-man James B. Duke (died last October) was just completing in 1924 the huge waterpower development on the Saguenay River in Canada. His plant cost $40,000,000. It would generate 600,000 horsepower of electricity a year and do it so cheaply that current could be sold for $12 per one horsepower per year. At this rate bauxite could be hauled to the Saguenay, be reduced in electric furnaces to aluminum, and the aluminum worked into industrial shapes and household utensils with vast profits. Manufacturer...