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...Grand Ducal court of Princess Charlotte and Prince-Consort Felix of Luxembourg. Seemingly a successful prayer is the only force which might soon soften the firm resolve of the Allied Powers not to permit the loyal people of Hungary to substitute a king for their present Regent (Admiral Nicholas Horthy...
...School in Economics and Government, Washington; an organizer of the War Industries Board; on the Foreign Purchasing Commission with Bernard M. Baruch and Judge R. S. Lovett through which all monies loaned by U. S. to the Allies passed for war purchases in the U. S.; Legion of Honor; regent of the Smithsonian - are a few of his heavy list of posts and honors. He is now aged 78. In Washington were three institu tions catering to students of social sciences: the Institute of Economics, the Institute for Government Research, the Robert Brookings Graduate School. This trio merged into...
...despatch from Bucharest, last week, told that Prince-Regent Nicholas of Rumania had forcibly arrested a truculent taxi driver who refused to pull over out of the way of His Royal Highness' roadster. Reputedly "Prince" Nicholas seized the protesting man by the collar, lifted him into his own automobile and sped to the police station, where he left his prisoner." Persons who recall the bantamweight proportions and receding chin of Prince Nicholas, 24, think that this story...
...onetime Premier then said that, while the Prince could not become King of Rumania, there was nothing unconstitutional in his becoming a Regent. Said he: "I know nobody who speaks of placing Carol on the throne. If I thought he was a conspirator in wishing to return to Rumania I would not defend...
...dispute was engendered when the J. G. White Corporation of Manhattan announced that it had obtained a contract from Ras Taffari, Prince Regent of Abyssinia (otherwise known as Ethiopia) for Empress Waizeru Zauditu, to build a $20,000,000 dam across the Blue Nile at Lake Tsana...