Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tycoon had smitten tycoon. The thews and sinews of St. Davids were those of the Chairman of the Buenos Aires & Pacific Railway, Argentine Great Western Railway, Costa Rica Co., etc., etc. When Tycoon Kylsant decided to smite back next day, he entered! the lists as Chairman of the Royal Mail, of the White Star Line and many another line, also as Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. Rising to address a shareholders' meeting of one of his subsidiary companies the "Lord of the Seven Seas" shook his impressive mane of pure white hair and solemnly declared...
...quite unknown to me. In 40 years the companies under my chairmanship have passed through difficult periods, but I never had to ask the stockholders to consent to the writing down of the capital of any shipping company. Statements have been circulated about a possible reconstruction of the Royal Mail Company which are absolutely without foundation. For the first six months of this year the results obtained are better than...
When Lord Kylsant had fully set forth his position, the almost immediate result was to send Royal Mail shares bounding up almost to where they had been before the St. Davids pamphlet appeared. Victory seemed to perch on Tycoon Kylsant's standard, but it was not complete until the following afternoon when a meeting of the Royal Mail Debenture stockholders was called-a meeting which both tycoons were in duty bound to attend...
Serious to the Royal Family was the condition of Prince George's stomach. Stomach trouble caused him to be transferred four months ago, from the Navy to the more leisurely Foreign Office. Last week by doctor's advice he gave up even this job, retired to the country to rest and diet until the autumn...
...right lung of His Majesty George V. People all over the world who have ever had to have their pleural cavities drained following pleural pneumonia are vividly conscious that a channel was cut into His Majesty's chest to let the poison drain out. Fortnight ago six royal physicians descried and decided that the royal abscess was not draining properly. They announced that they would have to operate again. To calm a worried public, Court officials quickly declared that the operation would be comparatively minor...