Word: gr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Juan VI whom Napoleon frightened into the New World, the Brazilian Empire lasted until an uprising of landowners and army in 1889 forced Dom Pedro II to resign. Today his grandson, handlebar-mustached, white-haired Dom Pedro, lives a guest of the Brazilian Government on his tax-free Gráo Palace at Petropolis, outside Rio. Young Dom Juan last week stoutly insisted he "was merely trying to join the excitement and got in the way of a bullet", but police put him under bedside arrest ''for examination...
...about six hours, halted on the outskirts of Vienna at 4:25 p.m. and Herr Hitler shook hands for several minutes with everyone who approached. In Germany he uses the greeting "Heil Hitler!" like everyone else, but, tactful to sensitive Viennese, Herr Hitler greeted them again and again with "Grüss Gott...
Delivered to financial editors in Manhattan early this week were telegrams inviting them to send representatives at 5 130 that afternoon to Suite No. gR at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria. Even if the reason for the invitation had not been revealed in the message, the signature alone-G. A. Ball-would have been enough to guarantee a good turnout...
...authorized him only to publish a portrait in words of herself with the object of rectifying many fantastic reports concerning her person ally. Therefore Mrs. Simpson noted with amazement that the actual articles far exceeded in scope any possible portrait in words. . . . She has retained Maître Armand Grégoire, Paris attorney, to defend her interests." Attorney Gregoire was reported considering suits for fat libel against such mass newsorgans as Paris-Soir and Corricre della Sera of Milan, which had car ried the Noyes articles after their U. S. publication. Mrs. Simpson had been discussing them with...
...great King and a great gentleman." He added: "It has also been my privilege to know His Majesty King Edward." And then as the supreme evidence of his ability as a statesman, President Roosevelt turned without warning to Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of Quebec Province and Mayor Grégoire of Quebec City and said: "Monsieur le Premier Ministre de Quebéc, Monsieur le Maire: "Ces aimables paroles que vous venez de m'adresser au nom de votre grande Province et de votre belle ville, et que vous adressez, par moi, au peuple des États Unis...