Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young man is the Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 30, son of the most potent British newspaper tycoon, Viscount Rothermere,* 60, who for years has trumpeted with his Daily Mail and other blatant new organs: Restore to Hungary at least a part of her dismembered lands, which now belong to Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania...
Last week the British Viscount who thus champions defeated Hungary before the victorious Allies, sent his son to Budapest, to accept the nation's thanks. As young Esmond Harmsworth approached the Capital in an open motor car the demonstration in his honor became so fervent and spontaneous that he was fairly mobbed by hearty wenches in bright peasant costumes who roughly seized and thoroughly kissed his hand...
When Budapest was reached the Hungarian Parliament extended a unanimous, rising vote of welcome to the son of Lord Rothermere. Flags and bunting fluttered. The Mayor of Budapest came in stately regalia with symbolic gifts of bread and salt. A pageant of three hours' duration trooped past. Justinian Cardinal Szeredy blessed. And, as evening fell, weary Esmond Harmsworth was motored across the Danube and up a steep winding street which leads to the huge, once royal, palace of Archduke Friedrich and Archduchess Isabella. There, at the table of two Habsburgs whom royalist Hungarians still acclaim as royal, was served...
Since Emperor Hirohito has thus far begotten only princesses (two), the heir presumptive is now Prince Chichibu, second son of the late Emperor, and his fiancee, Miss Matsudaira, may dream without presumption of Empresshood...
...Prince was born at Tokyo, in 1863, and was adopted five years later as the son and heir of his kinsman Prince Yoshinobu Tokugawa, who had just relinquished the Shogunate. Soon afterward the newly-made-potent Emperor Mutsuhito appointed 5-year-old heir Tokugawa to be Governor of Shidzuoka Province, as a mark of the esteem in which the House of Tokugawa was, and still is, held by the Imperial House of Japan...