Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich revenues from silk, gold, sandalwood and agriculture-of which the Maharaja himself gets $13,000,000 annually. Its high altitude gives Mysore the healthiest climate in India. A sober, hard-working ruler, the childless Maharaja early designated his brother Sir Sri Kanthirava Narasimharaja Wadiyar Bahadur to be Yuvaraja-heir apparent. Last fortnight the Yuvaraja, one of the most glamorous, eccentric figures in the East, was dead before the Maharaja...
...recent years-the heir apparency to Mysore having been passed on to his soberer 21-year-old son-Prince Wadiyar's greatest enthusiasm has been the cinema industry. While in England he would hang around Denham (the Korda Studios) all day, and return in the middle of the night to shout out of their beds watchmen, actors, directors. Prince Wadiyar's contribution to civilization: he discovered Sabu, the Elephant...
...personally, who then billed their services down the line to the operating companies CO. controlled. Last check, drawn in January, by Associated's two top holding companies was for $5,000 worth of penny postcards and printing to notify its 250,000 security holders that Hoppy's heir was a U. S. District Court...
Born. To Princess Caroline Mathilde, 27, and Second Son Prince Knud of Denmark. 39: their second child, a son, thus securing the line of succession to the throne, there being no other male heir in the royal family...
When he was an undergraduate at Yale ('97), the late Edward Stephen Harkness, heir to a Standard Oil fortune of at least $130,000,000, was a shy, quiet boy who studied earnestly, liked to ride, play golf, read detective stories. Yale gave Edward Harkness an interest in Egyptology, art and Shakespeare, a few great & good friends, certain loyalties to friends and college that were to shape a wondrous philanthropy...