Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States where they now have both seats. In Montana, Senator Wheeler might get ousted; in Tennessee, Senator McKellar. In Missouri, Democrat Charles M. Hay, slated to fill the seat of fierce retiring-Senator James A. ("Jim") Reed, might lose to Republican R. C. Patterson. In New York, Senator Dr. Royal S. Copeland (red carnation in buttonhole) might be ousted by Nominee the Hon. Alanson Bigelow Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Extra Equerry of Edward of Wales is Colonel and Honorary Brigadier General Gerald Frederic Trotter, perhaps H. R. H.'s closest elder friend. A heart attack smote General Trotter last week, rendering him unconscious for several hours. Instantly Hunter Wales despatched a native runner to the two Royal field telegraphers, encamped some miles away near a tapped wire. So fervent were their calls for help that a motor cavalcade of doctors and nurses set out from Kampala, 200 miles distant, under the impression that the Heir Apparent was dying. They made the distance in six hours flat, over ghastly...
...roof of London's Labor Exchange rose gently up, one evening last week, then slithered down to crash in fragments. Two omnibuses were checked as they lumbered across Oxford Circus, were sportively rolled backward several yards. The glass dome of the Royal College of Music was blown to tinkling smithereens...
Perceiving that the Regent (now Emperor) of Abyssinia might yield to Royalty what he would not to statesmen, Commoner Mussolini enlisted the aid of King Vittorio Emmanuele's smart cousin, the Duke of Abruzzi. With pomp and panoply, the Duke and a suite of Royal proportions crossed the Mediterranean, sailed down the eastern coast of Africa, and then struck inland to Abyssinia and its remote capital, Addis Ababa. Of assistance in thawing the suspicious Regent's reserve was a huge, shiny Issota-Fraschini limousine, a de luxe Italian product which sells in the U. S. for some $18,000. This...
...Henri Wilhelm August Deterding is famed in Holland. The son of a Dutch sea captain, he left Holland in 1884, went to the Dutch East Indies to sell kerosene lamps and allied merchandise. In 1892 he was called to Batavia by the Royal Dutch oil interests. He is now Director-General of that gigantic enterprise. Robust, brown-eyed, white-haired, he spends most of his time in St. Helen's Court, London, centre of the financial district. The English have made him a baronet. His millions rank him with Rockefeller, Ford, the world's Croesi. He is superficially...