Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Metropolitan newspapermen sent out to Canton, Ohio, to cover the now national Mellett murder case (TIME, July 26, POLITICAL NOTES), last week discovered and described just such an automobile, in the garage of one James ("Jumbo") Crowley, gigantic onetime monarch of the Canton underworld. There were five cars in this Crowley's garage, but of the five the reporters noted specially the vehicle whispered of by timorous Cantonese as "Jumbo's Box Car." It would readily hold nine men, and considerable tools or luggage be- sides. It had extra high gears. It was battered, dented and per- forated...
...Italia Bella. Like her namesake, "Fair Italy," she appears to adore him. The invisible talons of Federzoni may yet prove more deadly to II Duce's supremacy than the claws of Italia Bella. Mussolinism. Today the ceaseless unremittent work-fervor of Mussolini is triumphantly infused into Italians. From monarch...
...Madrid, married at 18, returned to Venezuela where his bride died of yellow fever. He foreswore domestic life and plunged-after another visit to Napoleon-dominated Europe and a trip through the U. S.-into the serious business of liberating Central America from the tyranny of its Spanish monarch...
Haakon VII. The monarch who may thus shortly reign over a large part of the two extremities of the globe is the second son of King Frederick VIII and brother of Christian X of Denmark. In 1896 King Edward VII of Britain prudently caused the marriage of his third daughter, Maud, to Haakon, then Prince Carl of Denmark. In 1905 the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), emboldened by the benign attitude of the British Lion, declared dissolved the union of Norway and Sweden (1814-1905) and elected as king of Norway, Carl of Denmark, who promptly took the favorite name...
...party plowed back across the Sahara, smitten sorely by sand- storms, but not before M. Maurice Reygasse, savant and Governor of the Department of Tebessa, had ingratiated himself with Amenokal Akhamouk, monarch of the Tuaregs (who only a few years ago scourged the desert, slew foreigners), to such an extent that a royal edict was issued to find and lay before white archeologists a manuscript containing, in several hundred sheets of parchment, the only known history of the Tuaregs. This should throw much light on the history of the Punic Carthaginians with whom, it is now established, the Tuaregs traded...