Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Regency means danger to the country this discloses the Government's own ambition to rule in the Regency Council. Is a second dynasty to rule besides the present royal family? Domination of others than members of the royal family produces no happy results." Anxious Rumanians feared a grave crisis, the pitting of the Royal Dynasty against the Peasant Government, the raising of the issue whether Rumania might not be better off as a republic than with her present eight-year-old King Mihai and three Regents. White-lipped and hard-eyed, Prime Minister Juliu Maniu sought Prince Nicholas, found...
...from onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Next day Stresemann was buried with peaceful pomp. Not a militarist, there was not a uniformed soldier in his cortege, which was led by members of his Leipzig student corps, bearing his student cap, which now lies with him in his grave. The funeral's pace was set by the dull thudding "Death March" from Gö;tterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods*), interrupted by low, whining air planes from which whipped taut black streamers. One automobile was in the procession, that of Widow Stresemann. Led by grizzled President von Hindenburg...
King, Queen and Princes paused to mourn last week, but not for long. They are workers. Smiling, keen little King Prajadhipok puts all his brothers to work. Between them they divide up nearly all government offices. The prince whose small body was last week anointed for the grave had most efficiently conducted the Siamese Ministry of Health before he took up medical studies. Only recently the king on a visit to princes in northern rural Siam had admonished his relatives as follows...
...druggists (wholesale, retail), chain store men, credit men, life insurance underwriters, traveling engineers, bakers, merchant-tailors and designers, bankers (men, women), radio manufacturers, accountants, safety engineers, laundry owners. Traveling at reduced railroad rates they had seen new places, participated in bridge and golf tournaments, elected officers, passed resolutions, been grave...
...surplus also rises! And with it appears once more the problem, not so perplexing apparently to those would easily and sanely dispose of it, but still of grave import to the body in whose final decision rests its ultimate destiny...