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Despite postwar losses of vast holdings in Communist Czechoslovakia, Franz Josef II is ranked among Europe's ten richest men. A grandnephew of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo ignited World War I, the alert, easygoing prince is also rated Liechtenstein's most popular monarch since Johannes the Good, who took the throne in 1858, reigned 71 years,* and spent an impressive $18 million of his personal fortune to build schools and roads in Liechtenstein. Though no one expected Franz Joseph to spend as much, loyal Liechtensteiners who crowded into the palace last week prayed lustily...
Community of Nations. Moderator of this global forum is Hamilton Fish Armstrong, a vigorous, white-haired, bushy-browed man of 69 who qualifies for the post both by lineage and interest. Grandnephew of Grant's Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, and son of a U.S. diplomat (D. Maitland Armstrong. U.S. consul general to Italy in 1871), Armstrong served briefly as a military attache in the U.S. consulate in Belgrade in 1919 before becoming European correspondent for the New York Evening Post. Then, in 1922, the Council on Foreign Relations, a group of Manhattan financiers, lawyers and businessmen, started Foreign...
...Whose great-grandnephew is Cleveland (The Proper Bostonians) Amory...
...View of the Spree, by Alson J. Smith. It seems that Kaiser Wilhelm had an American mistress, who, despite her Calvinist morality (she made him burn his collection of dirty pictures), became an ardent German nationalist. The author, her grandnephew, has set down a fascinating history, although he has failed to establish (as he believes) that Auntie was a major cause of World...
...seems that Kaiser Wilhelm had an American mistress, who, despite her Calvinist morality (she made him burn his collection of dirty pictures), became an ardent German nationalist. The author, her grandnephew, has set down a fascinating history, although he has failed to establish, as he believes, that Auntie was a major cause of World...