Word: holkar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's fattest trade union, facing a major crisis, last week showed no more solidarity than a flock of peacocks in a thunderstorm. India's Chamber of Princes (an undisciplined brotherhood of rajas, maharajas and nawabs, with a stray Gaekwar and Holkar) held its annual conference in Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel. The princes looked out over the bay and pondered a prospect that many a union man has faced before-technological unemployment...
Married. H. H. Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao ("Junior") Holkar Bahadur of Indore, 34, glossy, multimillionaire ruler of 1,513,966 souls; and Euphemia Watt Crane, 29; he for the third time, she for the second; a few hours after his divorce from Marguerite Lawlor Branyen, onetime Minneapolis nurse; in Reno...
Established in Reno for the stated purpose of divorcing the former Marguerite Lawler Branyen of Minneapolis is a "Mr. Holkar," who married her four years ago with a high-flown flourish: "Without mental peace I cannot properly discharge my duties as a ruler." Slim, sleek "Mr. Holkar" is His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur ("His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings, one-quarter-better-than-anyone-else, beautiful King Shepherd, Brave Warrior"), fabulously wealthy Maharaja of Indore, 34, ruler of some 1,325,000 souls, possessor of the first air-conditioned palace in India...
...courtyards. In Bombay's Willingdon Club the smart set gushed about it over chotapeg. The talk even slid through the lacelike alabaster screens in the harems. In the midst of internal revolution, with a Japanese invasion threatened, His Highness the Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur ("Junior" to American friends) had abdicated...
...Highness Maharaja Holkar of Indore is familiarly called "Junior" by his American friends, wears canary yellow suits and gives lavish tiger-hunting parties. He is married to an American girl, the former Margaret Lawler. Unlike most of the other 561 princely potentates (see cuts), he is known for his liberalism. He speaks for himself, perhaps not for others whose kingdoms, as Lord Halifax said, are "enshrined in solemn treaties" between them and their King-Emperor. Junior announced: "Isolation of the Indian states is now a thing of the past and I hope they will associate themselves more directly with national...