Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Carol invited Premici Tatarescu to lunch at the Royal Palace. Abruptly the Electoral Commission announced that it did not approve of the proposal by His Majesty's Government to construe the returns so as to give itself 50%. Denounced by the Commission, the Premier wrote out and signed his resignation, left it with the King. In Court circles it was said that nothing would be done until after the New Year holidays, and by that time M. Tatarescu may conceivably have been able to line up support from other Rumanian parties for a coalition Cabinet. It was even...
With fine oriental flair old King Fuad managed, with British assistance, to maintain himself in power without kowtowing to Egypt's majority Wafdist party. As his royal adviser toward the end of his rule, he kept an anti-Wafdist, Ali Maher Pasha. Under the new King, Ali Maher was appointed to the Senate and Premier Mustafa Nahas Pasha and his Wafdists hoped they could maintain a monopoly as bestowers of royal advice. Two months ago strong-willed Farouk, without ado, plucked Ali Maher from the Senate and reinstalled him as royal adviser. Premier Nahas protested volubly. Wafdist Blue-shirts...
...England, Captain John A. Murdocke owns Kilgore & French, one of the world's half-dozen great tailoring houses, and is admitted to the royal enclosure at Ascot. In the U. S., he is a style reporter for Men's Wear magazine, Interwoven Socks and Palm Beach Suits. Arriving in Manhattan last week, the impeccable Captain Murdocke listed the U. S. men he considers best dressed (among others): Cinemactors John Loder, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Tyrone Power, Clark Gable; Socialites Angier Biddle Duke, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Marshall Field III, Joseph E. Widener, Peter Widener, William Goadby...
...Washington, New York's voluble Senator Royal S. Copeland had been sitting for days as chairman of the Senate Joint Maritime Committee considering last month's Maritime Commission report. That 17-page document by Joseph Patrick Kennedy bluntly declared: "Labor conditions in the American Merchant Marine are deplorable. . . . The employer, for his part, has fostered long hours, low wages and cramped quarters. The employe, meanwhile, has abused his employment in a manner that would not be tolerated in any other industry...
Last month President Cardenas neatly split the opposition by a deal with Mexican Eagle Oil Co. (an affiliate of British Royal Dutch-Shell, which controls 60% of Mexican oil production), yielding it full control of the rich Poza Rica field in return for royalties of 15% to 35% of the petroleum produced (TIME...