Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money out of his last home seemed very amusing to me. St. Vincent sur Jard, where Clémenceau came to rest during the summer months, is but a few miles from my home. The farmhouse does not belong to an old countess but to a friend of my father, Comte de Tremont, who is also our neighbor in Vendee. I remember M. de Tremont telling us of his surprise when, one evening, Clémenceau drove to his Château de la Guignardiere and expressed his wish to rent the little farmhouse at St. Vincent sur Jard...
...Highness Maharaja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur left Christ Church College, Oxford, to assume the throne of Indore, having reached his majority. His father abdicated in 1926. He will be enthroned early next month, will control 9,519 square miles...
...Regency Council appointed to deputize for King George (TIME, Dec. 10, 1928), and for duty's sake he would shake hands with anyone. Relieved palace officials announced that His Majesty was "too ill" to receive the new Ambassador, that the Prince of Wales would act in his father's place...
...Elizabethan costumes (resembling a cross between the Jack of Hearts and a master of hounds), and Mr. J. B. Monk of the Foreign Office. Sir John Hanbury-Williams led the party to the throne room where Edward of Wales shook hands with a representative of the murderers of his father's cousin...
Perhaps the Greeks, notoriously fickle, want a King, instead of the President (Alexander Zaimis) their Parliament has just" elected (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week obstreperous old Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos, 100% democrat and "Father of the Greek Republic," flung a bold challenge to Royalist Leader Panagiotis Tsaldaris...