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...first the budget-balancing National Government gave no special thought to decorating London with European royalties and Indian potentates. Suddenly that touch of splendor began to seem imperative. Cables flashed. Excited Rajas and Maharajas grabbed every de luxe suite on liners that could get them to England by May 6. Shoals of them were surging in last week, headed by the pearl-turbaned Chairman of the Indian Chamber of Princes. H. H. the Maharaja of Patiala...
...target for protests and lampoons. After Albert's death his widow's frantic seclusion, her transports of grief for years on end and her eventual recluse neglect of the Crown's public functions made Victoria for a time almost hated by subjects who rightly considered England's living problems more important than the late Prince Consort. Only in Victoria's great age, when she plucked up heart and spirits again, emerging as Empress of India at the climax of Britain's greatest period of Imperialism, was the Queen for a twilight span surpassingly adored...
...Like Queen Mary, King George has the distaste-rather than dislike-which so-many Englishmen honestly feel for so many U. S. citizens, and directly after the U. S. entered the War on England's side, George V still thought of "Americans" as persons too mercenary or "too proud" to fight. "I've a good story on you," said His Majesty at this time to U. S. Ambassador Walter Hines Page, and last week Englishmen still thought it good enough to be retold in the Jubilee Number of their Illustrated London News. "You Americans," continued the King...
...Ambassador Page, fond though he was of England and her King, records that he "ventured to reply: 'The trouble with that joke, Sir, is that it's out of date...
This profit comes in the last year of a “three-year turnaround plan” Levy instituted. In seven years since Beth Israel and the New England Deaconess Medical Center merged, the joint venture has lost approximately $280 million dollars...