Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That's just what I was going to say," piped His Grace the Duke of Portland...
Shortly after purchasing Cora's kennel, Edward of Wales attended a luncheon in his honor, presided over by the 71-year-old Duke of Portland...
Eyeing the quarrels and troubles of Russia's Communist leaders was elegant Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich Romanov, from his French villa at Saint-Briac. Chief pretender to the throne of Ah The Russias...
...Grand Duke Cyril admitted for the first time that the monarchists have a counter revolutionary organization at work in the Soviet Union...
...Grand Duke Cyril's suspicions of internal trouble in Russia were proved with startling effect by a late despatch from Moscow. By order of the Stalin government, three former imperial and Kerensky officials, recently high Soviet railway and mining officials, were sentenced to be shot dead for obstructing Communist operation of railways and of the gold and platinum industry-in other words, for "counter-revolutionary plotting for the restoration of Capitalism." Condemned were: N. K. von Meck, onetime chairman of the privately owned Moscow-Kazan Railway; A. F. Velitchko, head of the transport department of the Imperial Staff during...