Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France, the motherland, Foundling Marie Basilide lavished the love that her parents never stayed to receive. Motherland France did not reciprocate this love; the native peasant boys took it personally. From the boys Marie occasionally accepted small gifts-"a knife, a printed handkerchief, a ruler, or a tobacco pouch, but never a penny unless it had a hole...
...bronchial cold and low blood pressure; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, in Lincoln, of injuries suffered when he slipped on an icy pavement; Mrs. Knute Rockne, widow of the Notre Dame football coach, in Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., critically, following an abdominal operation; John R. Coen, grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in Clarksburg, W. Va., of bronchial pneumonia; Actress Dorothy Gish, 34, in Manhattan, of a nervous disorder...
...Booth Tarkington's favorite stories is about a colored cook who returned from lodge meeting with the announcement that she had just been elected "Supreme Exalted Ruler of the Universe," but explained that there were eleven other members of the lodge higher than that. Russia's Supreme Economic Council is in fact one of eleven commissariats in the Russian Cabinet or Union Council of People's Commissars. It has charge of all factories, mines, mills, is a super-Department of Commerce. Its chairman, Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, is to Josef Stalin as Herbert Hoover was to Presidents Harding & Coolidge. Last week Stalin...
...cafes of Pest, where even the waiters wear monocles, race-proud Magyars have hatched many a dark plot to put young Archduke Otto on the vacant throne in Buda across the Danube. But Archduke Otto is no Magyar; he is a Habsburg. To find a more appropriate ruler for his people was the self-appointed mission of a young Magyar fencing-master named Toth. Like the Finns, Esthonians, Turks and Tartars, the Magyars are part Asiatic, are believed by some to be re- lated to the Japanese. Fencing-Master Toth chose for his king the brother of Emperor Hirohito...
...Queen Louisa Harrison, recognized by one of the many U. S. factions, died. She was English-born, a devout Presbyterian and worth $1,000,000 which her shrewd, deceased husband made trading horses and in real estate. Last summer King Stephen III of the gypsy house of Kaslov, ruler of 10,000 scattered subjects, had to get his son Prince Willie, 17, out of a Newark, N. J. jail. Prince Willie had stolen a car and run away with a crown worth $4.500 and the tribal funds because he did not fancy the wife his father had bought...