Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these complications undermined the Raja's prestige in Sarawak. Two years ago Sir Charles, looking about for a suitable heir to the throne, decided his brother, Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke (now 64), was too old. Besides, Bertram's wife had also got her name in the papers by embracing Mohammedanism after being successively a Protestant, Christian Scientist, Roman Catholic. So Sir Charles appointed Bertram's son, Antoni Walter Dayrell Brooke, to be Sarawak's Tuan Muda. Then he sailed for England...
...Power character, Ben, is a big, hot-blooded, black-haired Bristol bastard whose story is as old and formal as legend : the proud but-for-base-birth heir-to-the-manor who a) vows vengeance against his humiliators, b) wanders and adventures far, c) returns rich, to deal with friends and foes according to their deserts...
...fancy swath of strikes with Government approval, also cutting in on the benefits of Cárdenas' expropriations. But meeting last week in Mexico City, the 4,589 delegates to the annual CTM convention were puzzled, disunited, sore. The cause was just one man, Cárdenas' heir, Manuel Avila Camacho, whom the CTM had helped to elect President of Mexico...
Died. Second Lieut. Charles Standish Vereker, 29, only son and heir of Viscount Gort (former Commander of the British Field Force), one of the last officers to evacuate Dunkirk last June; by his own hand, "while the balance of his mind was disturbed"; in Dorset, England...
...Jaime never took the title of Prince of the Asturias (Crown Prince of Spain). No hemophile, Don Jaime was born deaf, was for years mute as well, though he now croaks intelligible Spanish, English, French. When Don Alfonso married, Don Jaime stepped aside, leaving healthy Don Juan as heir apparent...