Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bourke of the Imperial Tobacco Co. to the Royal Customs Commission, which sat at Montreal last fortnight. The smuggling cost the Canadian government $7,800,000 to $10,000,000 in revenues, he reckoned. His remedy: "Stop it [smuggling] by reducing the excessive taxes on Canadian cigarets...
Died. Dr. A. H. Freeland Barbour, 71, famed gynecologist, onetime president of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh; in Edinburgh...
...some present it seemed that Nora Bayes black bottomed better than Prince Henry; but when the moment of judging came they "gave the little boy a hand." Florence, stamping her small right foot for quiet, awarded to His Royal Highness the first prize, held it aloft before the crowd, explained in mock Negro dialect: "Dis y'ere fust prize am an ostrich feddah suit o' cat's pajamas...
Whatever is royal and at the same time smart and sumptuous, in the Netherlands, will usually be found to appertain to that great lady, the Queen Mother Emma. Her daughter, Queen Wilhelmina, is undoubtedly more popular, more Dutch, more well-beloved; but the Queen Mother is Royal, as though by Right Divine-in the manner of Alexandra, late British Queen Mother. Therefore last week it was naturally Queen Emma who received at Castle Soest Dyk, her summer residence, a lady who is the consort of Wilhelm II and is known in the Netherlands as "Empress" Hermine...
...alleged, the U. S. bankers were given a majority position on the boards of the National Bank of Nicaragua, Inc., and the Pacific Railways of Nicaragua, Inc., a position which they allegedly made use of to transfer some 3,500,000 of funds belonging to these institutions from the Royal Bank of Canada to the Guaranty Trust Co. and J. & W. Seligman & Co. Upon these deposits, Señor Tijerīno; alleged that only 2% and 2½% interest is being paid...