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...Crown Princess' marriage. How far was it appropriate to go in this case? The wench and her vegetable man were both of substantial folk in the village of Oegstgeest. They were not going to have a Third-Class wedding (free) at the Town Hall, nor a Second-Class wedding ($2.75), but were prepared to pay for a First-Class wedding ($5.50) with the bridegroom in striped trousers and tails, the bride in modest everyday dress. In these becoming circumstances Her Majesty's Government, with the benevolent concurrence of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, authorized the marriage of Petronella & Martinus...
...week special London police squads were assigned to handle expected crowds at His Majesty's departure. During the month, however, British public opinion had changed so completely that scarcely 50 people were on hand to wave good-by to the Emperor's first-class Pullman. He took second-class on reaching the Continent and as his Geneva-bound train halted at Paris the King of Kings was greeted by one lone French official. That night, outside His Majesty's compartment door, one of Ethiopia's doughtiest generals, Ras Kassa, stood guard in the swaying, jouncing train...
...ending the labor of children in mills and factories. . . . You and I will not forget the long struggle to put an end to the indiscriminate distribution of 'fly-by-night' securities. . . . Third-Class Diet. "The average of our citizenship lives today on what would be called by the medical fraternity a third-class diet. If the country lived on a second-class diet, we would need to put many more acres than we use today back into the production of foodstuffs for domestic consumption. If the nation lived on a first-class diet, we would have...
...major moves by which Benito Mussolini jacked his country above the status of a second-class power was to put the lira, previously a wobbly joke currency, squarely on gold (TIME, Jan. 2, 1928). Soon at Pesaro the Lira Monument was reared, cut deep with II Duce's promise to defend the gold lira to the last drop of Italian blood. Since then nothing has occurred to convince the Dictator that any other statesman who inflates, debases or trifles with currency values is not dead wrong. Last week with U. S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Baldwin and Japanese...
...final grand tour. As it had when he was 20, Paris greeted him hysterically. This time London, too, was cordial; Victoria invited him to Windsor Castle. All Europe held concerts in his honor. On his way from Luxembourg to Bayreuth to hear Tristan a honeymooning couple entered his second-class compartment, leaned gaily out of the open window. Franz Liszt caught a chill. At Bayreuth it developed into pneumonia. His last word: "Tristan!" The Princess died a year later...