Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, cannon boomed hollowly in Kathmandu, capital of the small (54,000 sq. mi.), ancient kingdom of Nepal on India's northeastern frontier, to signal the opening of diplomatic and trade relations between that country and the U.S. (TIME, May 12). It was a great event. For centuries, the Nepalese had dealt diplomatically only with Britain, occasionally with the Chinese...
Keys of the Kingdom. At 10 o'clock Sunday morning, the guests settled themselves in the Capitol's Hall of Congress to see Gallegos take over. From his predecessor, Rómulo Betancourt (who had held office as provisional President since the revolution of 1945), Gallegos received the yellow, blue and red presidential sash, took the oath of office. Then the party moved over to the north wing...
Shrewd little King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan likes to shoot and hunt, compose delicate Arabic poetry, recite from the Koran, and play chess. He also aspires to enlarge his kingdom. Last week, fingering a set of exquisitely carved chess pieces in his winter palace at Shouneh, a few miles east of the River Jordan, he told a TIME correspondent: "Politics is like chess: you cannot rush your pawns across enemy territory, but must seek favorable openings...
...Crowther, editor since 1938, answers only to a four-man board of trustees that has met only once in 20 years. In four and a half years, he has increased his small but potent readership from 10,000 to 38,000 (45% of the circulation is outside the United Kingdom). A thousand Americans (out of 4,500 U.S. subscribers) pay $24 a year to get the Economist...
From Tea & Buns. The Lyons empire of edibles was starteD in 1886 by a tobacco salesman named Montague Gluckstein, who had noted the United Kingdom's lack of cheap but decent teashops. He sold his brother Isidore and brothers-in-law Alfred and Barnett Salmon on the idea of a moderate-priced catering service, brought in Joseph Lyons, who gave his name to the company, thus avoiding confusion with their tobacco company, Salmon & Gluckstein. In an era of mirrored gin palaces, those who could not afford the expensive West End restaurants readily took to the spick-&-span teashops. Lyons...