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When Wilhelm II was All Highest he frequently gave audience to learned persons, instructing them and submitting to instruction on set topics of his own choosing...
Wilson victory was rewarded with the highest Cabinet post. The reward bristled with trouble. His first struggle secured government rather than banker control of the Federal Reserve. Then, as Prince of Peace, he effected anti-war pacts with 30 nations, but his Tolstoian principles were put severely to the test by the Mexican situation, by the California-Japan dispute over property ownership, and finally by the Great War. His influence over Wilson was early supplanted by Colonel House, who pulled strings, machinated quietly, buzzed around in one department after the other...
Once the Other Grandmama's eldest brother was called King, Kaiser and All Highest War Lord. She has been wife to one king and mother to two; but now, when she rides out in Florence, no one cries, "Look! There goes the Dowager Queen Sophie of Greece. The Kaiser's sister...
...Cheney Bros, building in Manhattan persuaded him to design the great iron doors, window frames, screens, trees for the display of their silks. He designed the tall iron gates at the entrance to the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris three years ago where he received the highest prize. Describing the things he has made by their ordinary names makes it seem that Brandt is no more than a successful plumber who conducts his trade with an eye for symmetry rather than the clock. Such is not the case. When Brandt designs a clotheshorse the thing is as lovely...
Henry Ford was given the highest decoration of Rumania, the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown for "outstanding achievements in manufacturing." The ceremony took place in Detroit, Andrew Popovich, Secretary of the Rumanian Legation, officiating...