Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rulers. Above the rank of mere celebrities were two rulers, one royal, one democratic, who reached Manhattan. They were the reigning Prince of Monaco. Louis II (TIME, Jan. 2); and the President of the Irish Free State, William Thomas Cosgrave (TIME, Jan. 16). Upon landing Prince Louis effaced himself completely beneath an incognito and succeeded in vanishing from the cognizance of the press. President Cosgrave was scheduled to tour the Midland and Eastern States, explaining his government to Irish-Americans, and counteracting the propaganda of famed obstreperous Eamon De Valera, now in the U. S. attempting to raise campaign funds...
...employes and another group representing £1,000,000,000 in invested capital met together at London last week for the first time. They met on strictly neutral ground, in a lofty pillared room at Burlington House, a room hitherto sacred to the high-minded proceedings of The Royal Society (scientific). There, seated around four baize-covered tables, they founded with high hopes the Conference of Industrial Cooperation...
...blue uniform, twinkling with medals, cased the little, compact royal body. The oval, shapely head bore proudly a black shako topped with aigrette plumes. The left hand rested, militantly graceful, on the jeweled hilt of a sword. The right arm snapped to a correct salute as Amir Amanullah beheld upon the platform small, slim King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, and burly but suave Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...
...brief trip to the U. S. When an English correspondent asked, "Is Your Majesty a friend of Great Britain?" shrewd Amir Amanullah replied: "I will answer that question after I have spoken to Sir Austen Chamberlain" (British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs). Attached to the royal Afghan suite, last week, were several businesslike, efficient secretaries who carried data upon the many, varied and picturesque opportunities which exist in Afghanistan for the profitable investment of occidental capital...
...Because of Cincinnati's famous art collections and its interest in music, it is already in the forefront of American cities as a cultural oasis in an arid land." This was an opinion offered by famed Art-critic (of the New York Times) Royal Cortissoz, as quoted, under the headline "Oasis," in the Cincinnati Enquirer, last week...