Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ferdinand Magellan went around the world in three years. Today, aviators are planning to do the deed in 15 days. But two Polish young men-Scoutmaster Jerzy Jelinski and Scout Henry Smosarski-are in no such hurry. They may take as long as the late Senor Magellan, for they are spreading good will among the Boy Scouts of the world. Fifteen months ago, they left Warsaw in a white-painted ("A Scout Is Clean") Ford, motored and lectured through Europe, were photographed with Benito Mussolini. Then they chugged across northern Africa, arrived in Manhattan on an export steamer a fortnight...
Scandalous reports concerning His Majesty King Michael I, aged 5, were circulated last week by newsgatherers returning from the funeral of King Ferdinand I (TIME, Aug. 1). After snooping about Rumania for a fortnight, the Associated Press correspondent stated positively that...
Newsgatherers jotted these words briskly, last week in Bucharest as the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania gave out her first interview since the death of her consort, Ferdinand I, and the ascension under a Regency of her five-year-old grandson, King Michael I (TIME, Aug. 1). Soon the Queen Grandmother went on to speak in such vein that she revealed herself once more as a clever and attentive student of all that is written or implied about Her Majesty. She said...
Despatches revealed, last week, that, during the funeral of King Ferdinand, the dead monarch's robe was suddenly flirted by the wind in such a way that part of it covered the head of Prince Nicholas, while he was assisting the pallbearers. This "sign," said many superstitious Rumanians, indicates that Prince Nicholas will some day succeed his father as King. He would do so automatically should five-year-old Michael...
...justifiable exaggeration. Michael is, as was Ferdinand, the son of a prince only. ?As King of Rumania, Michael I will receive the Crown Jewels ($35,000,000), and a civil list of $500,000 per annum, plus other income of $2,000,000 per annum...