Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They whispered that the King's recent European trip (TIME, Jan. 23-June 4) had been a ruinous, reckless extravagance, and that the Treasury's coffers are nigh to emptiness...
...inaugurated by a handshake across the Franco-Italian frontier between President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. That would have been no more than appropriate-for unquestionably this de luxe Riviera route is of greater social importance than the trans-Pyrenean freight line recently opened by the King of Spain and the President of France (TIME, July 23). Unfortunately relations between France and Italy are just now so tense that at the last minute it was considered wiser to omit the gesture of a nation-to-nation handclasp across the frontier. Therefore M. Le President and Il Duce kept...
...situation cannot be grasped without harking back a year to the Prime Ministry of Vintila Bratiano's late brother, the great Jon Bratiano. He it was who daringly altered the Royal succession and placed upon the Throne a baby King, Mihai I (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927). This stroke of statecraft was designed to maintain the power of the Tycoons unchallenged until the baby king grew up. To make doubly sure, Jon Bratiano set up a Regency of two old men and a youth, all denounced by the Parliamentary Opposition as puppets...
Recently carping, scandal-mongering Afghans have been conducting a whispering campaign against their Europeanized King Amanullah...
Last week, King Amanullah put abrupt end to such rumors. Pridefully he pointed out that his European trip had cost $75,000, but that the gifts he received were worth...