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...passed a decree (1921) affirming its right to elect anyone king, and denying the exclusive right of Otto to the succession. -The complicated Habsburg relationships are best disentangled with relation to the Emperor Leopold II (1747-1792). Franz Josef was his great grandson. Karl was his great-great-great-grandson. And Albrecht is his great-great-grandson. All these through slightly different lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Looming King | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

Separated. Mr. and Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton in Paris. Divorce was rumored. Mr. Hamilton is a grandson of the late John Pierpont Morgan, and a great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 20, 1926 | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

Jonathan Edwards and wife of the Rev. Aaron Burr, President of the College of New Jersey (Princeton), was unexpectedly delivered of her second child, a son, christened Aaron. The child was son, grandson, great-grandson, great-great-grandson of clergymen on both sides of his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eighty Years of Ambition* | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...ditches half full of water being dug by Chinese coolies wearing tin helmets- the boy wrapped in an army blanket and covered by a weather-worn Union Jack, carried on their shoulders by four slipping stretcher-bearers. A strange scene-the great-great-grandson of Paul Revere under a British flag, and awaiting him a group of some six or eight American Army medical officers -saddened with thoughts of his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Osler | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

Then Paul Revere, great-great-grandson of the rider, carried the lanterns down the aisle, up narrow stairs into the belfry. Mr. Dawes went out across narrow Salem Street, glanced up at the flaming jets, thought of his ancestor, William, who also rode to Lexington and Concord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dawesology | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

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