Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prayers were constantly offered in Westminster Abbey not only for the King but for his doctors, nurses. A silent prayer by a group of British marines was impressively led, in London, by James Joseph Tunney...
...Brazilian hopes of reviving the good old rubber days, by leasing over 3,000,000 Amazonian acres on which Fordized rubber plantations are being started. Some wild rubber is still gathered on the upper tributaries of the Amazon. Notably a ferocious and somewhat mysterious Italian who calls himself "The King of the Xingu" has terrorized and virtually enslaved several tribes on the Xingu River who now meekly gather wild rubber for the Racketeer King. Curiously enough a majority of the simple, aboriginal Indians of Brazil were for centuries totally ignorant that a human can swim. Their remote, abysmal backwardness...
Thomas Woodrow Wilson found out that it may be a mistake to return from Europe with new-fangled ideas, and so, last week, did King Amanullah of Afghanistan...
...vexed have Afghan males grown at the European pants into which they have been put (TIME, Sept. 10) that last week a large portion of the army revolted, seized the capital, Kabul, and chased King Amanullah with Queen Thuraya to an outlying fort, where they took refuge with loyal troops...
Shrewd Ivar Kreuger has known how to dicker with sensitive governments, greedy governments, when the Swedish Match Trust wanted another monopoly (TIME, Oct. 1). A fat check here, a guarantee there, and competition has pleasantly evaporated. Thus it was that, last week, the match king of Sweden could look with satisfaction at every major match-consuming country of the world, except...