Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though sound enough in a business way, the Principality of Monaco was racked again last week by political strife, surprising in view of the fact that last fall the Prince of Monaco's smart daughter Charlotte was announced to have settled His Highness' quarrel with certain political factions...
...Societe des Bains de Mer de Monaco (Sea Baths Society of Monaco), better known as the Monte Carlo gambling casino syndicate, has its own currency- round and oval celluloid chips (jetons) of various colors and denominations which the Casino sells for cash, to be used at the gaming tables and afterward redeemed for cash. Although strictly forbidden as legal tender outside the Casino, almost anyone nearby who frequents the Casino will accept them as such...
...born at Plaisians, Drome, France, where he spent his boyhood until he was ten. Then he traveled in Europe and Africa with his parents, studied at Turin, Italy, entered his novitiate at Monaco, France, where he became a member of the Society of Jesus. In 1878 he entered Woodstock College, Maryland, and shortly thereafter was called to teach at what was then Santa Clara College. Almost immediately he began to study the heavens; those aspects of the universe which many dismiss as "physical" he easily conceived to be other forms of "spiritual" evidence...
March 9-General election in Monaco, world's smallest principality...
...Savoia, Prince of Piedmont, Crown Prince of Italy, 25; to Marie José Charlotte Sophie Amelie Henriette Gabrielle de Saxe-Coburg-et-Gotha, Princess of Belgium, 23; at Rome, by His Eminence Pietro Cardinal Maffi, in the presence of the Kings of Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria, the Prince of Monaco, the infante Fernando of Spain representing his brother-in-law King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and the Duke of York representing the King-Emperor George V. In token of great gladness King Vittorio Emanuele ordered 6,000 Italian criminals pardoned and let out of jail; gave 10,000 pairs...