Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little while ago North Carolina's richest man, James B. Duke, left an astonishing number of millions to a little college in North Carolina, which at once became Duke University. From being a little college with a small endowment, it now becomes one of the dozen or so richest universities in the United States. This university is in Mr. Simmons' state. Not only that, but it is the college from which Mr. Simmons was graduated in the year 1873. Under the existing tax law a lot of Mr. Duke's millions would go to the Federal Government in taxes. With...
...evening his brothers, the Duke of York and Prince Henry, arrived in evening dress to find him receiving the local farmers and their families in a grey lounge suit while his personal cronies stood about somewhat awkwardly in formal morning clothes...
...Sweden often amiably looks on while King Gustaf V plays tennis with Swedish army officers, or with almost anyone to whom he happens to have taken a fancy. Therefore, Scandinavian newspapers noted with calm approval last week that when H. R. H. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Skane, recently saw a certain insignificant U. S. sailor on the point of drowning, he doffed his royal shoes and coat, jumped in, rescued the sailor and finally succeeded in keeping the whole affair dark for some weeks...
...Manhattan, Swedes proudly recalled that Crown Prince Gustaf is an excellent all-round athlete, an amateur archeologist of considerable practical ability, a tolerable singer and a vigorous champion of religious culture. His younger brother, the dramastist-poet Prince William, Duke of Sodermanland, is perhaps better known abroad (TIME, Oct. 19). But the activities of Crown Prince Gustaf, in connection with the World Church Conference at Stockholm (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq), his archeological excavations on the site of ancient Asine, and his work as a member of the Swedish Olympic Committee, have attracted considerable quiet notice. His most widely bruited...
...first wife, the Princess Margaret Victoria, daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, had died in 1920. Princess Louise of Mountbatten heeded his "rational wooing," married him in 1923, bore him a child which did not live last May, has proved a kindly step-mother to his four sons and his daughter Ingrid...