Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Mauris Robinson, California lawyer-banker: "General Electric Co. last week elected me a director, pursuant to its plan of having each region of the U. S. represented on its board of directors. Thus once more I am associated in vast fiscal enterprise with Owen D. Young, Chairman of General...
Died. Prince Rudda di Trabia, seven times a prince, thrice a duke, four times a marquis, overlord of seven Italian towns, head of reputedly the oldest family in Sicily.
Died. Prince Scipione Borghese, 56, seven times a prince, six times a duke, seven times a marquis, twice a count, once a baron, overlord of twelve towns; from progressive paralysis, in Florence. With Luigi Barzini,- he won the famed Peking-to-Paris automobile race in 1907.
Don Marquis, colyumist-playwright (Old Soak): "Upon reading in Heywood Broun's column a letter, signed 'Don,' which told how many rejection slips the writer had received from editors, I wrote Heywood Broun a letter: -. . . I don't want anybody in the trade to think it...
When the Alfonso XIII docked, last week, there strode down her gangplank the Count de Guelle, Marquis de Comillas, "the richest grandee of Castile" ($150,000,000. His Majesty King Alfonso XIII will visit the U. S. within a year.