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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus without counting "extras and in- cidentals," the King-Emperor's pneumonia will likely cost his people over £50,000 or almost a quarter of a million dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Comparatively cheap seems the typhoid fever of the King-Emperor when he was Prince of Wales when a cure was effected for not quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...King-Emperor approved the appointment of his second son, Prince Albert, Duke of York, to be Lord High Commissioner of the Church of Scotland, an office bestowed in 1924 by the then Labor Prime Minister, James Ramsay MacDonald, on one James Brown, a prac-ticing coal miner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...minutes. Then the bolts of the church door grated. Out to surrender filed a sorry, coughing, spitting, weepy little crew of federals. Their rebel captors, pious, had thus avoided the desecration of bursting open a church. Entering the sacred edifice with loud, exultant hosannahs and cries of "Christ is King" they sat down and soon partook of the feast of the Eucharist. Untroubled by the transitory rebel occupation of Cocula, General Calles wired to President Emilio Portes Gil: "I have the honor to inform you that the traitor Escobar (rebel generalissimo) continues to flee without fighting, and we continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pepper Pyre | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...rarely photographed. Nothing less than a royal occasion persuaded Brother Sosthenes, in 1924, to pose with the nobles, the diplomats and churchmen of Spain. The occasion was, of course, the opening of the new Spanish telephone system, and royalty was present in the person of His Most Catholic Majesty, King Alphonso XIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Breathless Behns | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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