Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Royal Commission now looking into the British war industries business again last week gave London the impression that all they knew and all they are likely to find out is what they had read in the papers while U. S. Senators were sending agents snooping through munitioneers' files, forcing witnesses to testify under oath and threatening contempt proceedings (TIME, Sept...
...empowered to do any of these things, the Royal Commission got through the week with Royal Commissioners reading fistfuls of U. S. newspaper clippings in accusing voices at British munitioneers who seemed to find the proceedings...
...Lynn Smith, a former graduate student in Sociology, is managing editor, while Carl C. Zimmerman and Pitirim A. Sorokin of the Department of Sociology, John D. Black, professor of Economics, and Corrado Gini, of the Royal University in Rome, Italy, now visiting Lecturer in Sociology, are associate editors...
...London an invitation to resume his Throne (TIME, Nov. 18). Dictator Kondylis, a great admirer of Dictator Mussolini, had counted on running Greece under George II in pro-Italian fashion. But exiled George II, deep in debt to British bankers, is also under heavy personal obligation to the British Royal Family. Therefore in Athens the restored King showed himself anti-Italian at once, soon forced out Dictator Kondylis, ordered a general election. The Field Marshal swore that if his parliamentary henchmen did not win a majority, his military henchmen would lead a coup d'etat to oust King George...
...revolution took its hideous place, His courage and his kindness and his grace Scattered {or charmed) its ministers to naught. No King, of all our many, has been proved By time so savage to the thrones of kings Nor won more simple triumph over fate. He was most royal among royal things, Most thoughtful for the meanest in his State; The best, the gentlest and the most beloved...