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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years public speaking has been a torture to the stuttering Duke of York. Well known is the fact that in order to avoid saying "K-K-K-King" at moments of state he habitually refers to his father as "His Majesty." Specialists, remembering the Duke's extreme shyness as a child, have for years treated his stuttering psychologically, as caused by nervousness. The treatments were unavailing, His Royal Highness continued to splutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: C-C-C-Cured | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

About three years ago, however, the Duke of York met one Lionel Logue, oral specialist from Australia. Last week Britain rang with joyful news. The Duke's stuttering was so nearly cured that he could say "King" without preliminary cackles. Alone among specialists Dr. Logue had discerned that the ducal impediment was physical, not mental. He had prescribed massage and throat exercises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: C-C-C-Cured | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Dawson of Penn," a frock-coated name, a faintly snobbish name, precisely the right name for the King's Physician in Ordinary ?so thought many a U. S. citizen last year when George V lay near Death and the sun never set on fresh bulletins signed "Dawson of Penn" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dawson of Bloomsbury | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Royal Society of Medicine celebrated with a banquet. The Prime Minister of Great Britain was there to tell a little story in his warm Scotch way. Baron Dawson proposed His Majesty's health, adding in impeccable bedside tones: "Tonight is a suitable moment to state that the King in his recovery goes on from strength to strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dawson of Bloomsbury | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Official visit of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III to Pope Pius XI at Vatican City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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