Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, news came from the royal palace that the new Belgian princess would be named Josephine Charlotte Ingeborg Elizabeth Marie Jose Marguerite Astrid. King Albert is to be godfather and the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, godmother. Foreign rulers, including the Pope, wired congratulations...
...Belgium. Good order was momentarily threatened at the palace gates in Brussels when 50 or so Legionaries and wives, who had read in Paris newspapers that King Albert was to receive the Legion, were refused admittance to the royal presence. Legionary Henry Brechner of Philadelphia, onetime pugilist, shouted, "I'll show you I'm as good as you are. I wasn't in the ring three years for nothing!" and punched the jaw of a California member of the official Savage party. Legionary Brechner was thrown...
...Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, born Dutch, naturalized Briton, Director General of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., delivered himself in Manhattan last week of a biting criticism of the Soviet regime, particularly regarding the condition of the Russian oil fields and their administration...
...Royal Dutch head, predicting, early disaster, then wanted to know which nation or financial body was going to be "stung" by giving the last credit to the Soviets. ". . . To think that after considering the above anybody would be foolish enough to undertake the working of these fields under temporary ownership ... is too silly for words...
...stretching of old exchange rules the governing committee has for some time permitted dealing in foreign deposit certificates of Royal Dutch Oil, Rand Mines, De Beers Mines and Shell Trading & Transport...