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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the most significant of 22 routine knighthoods was the bestowal upon the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir of the rank of Knight Commander in the Order of the Star of India. Seldom has the broad-mindedness of British royalty in matters of state been better exemplified. All England knows that in one of the most unsavory trials of modern times (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) this potentate, then heir apparent, was proven to have been surprised in Paris and in guilty company with the wife of an Englishman who proceeded to extort blackmail. The identity of the Prince was concealed...
...have hit their electioneering stride, there was one piquant bit of news concerning a potent Laborite M. P., soon perhaps to become a Cabinet Minister, who was knifed in his political back, last week, by his pretty daughter. He, Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, was Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Ramsay MacDonald Cabinet (1924) and has recently penned an able expose of War lies (TIME, Jan. 21). His faithless daughter. Miss Elizabeth Ponsonby, chirped last week, to a newswoman, "I'm going to vote for the Tories [Conservatives] just simply because I wouldn...
...Smuts is what ladies call "a very good and exceedingly plain woman." When the General was Prime Minister (1919-1924), she was not to be dissuaded from appearing at the most glittering State banquets in homely carpet slippers with a knitted shawl over her old-fashioned ''party dress." Withal, however, Mrs. Smuts seems to get on very placidly with her doughty General, who, during the War, captured most of German South Africa for the Empire...
Almost nobody is too poor to play in the State Lottery at Naples which is drawn every week. Though a very beggar may have but 50 centesimi (2½?), one of the 150 state banks will let him risk his all. Shoals of poor people win petty sums every week. But naturally the most stupendous prizes-paid on luckiest combinations of lucky numbers-turn up only once or twice in a decade. Six years ago $2,000,000 was won on the series 8, 65, 90, and ever since, with a peculiar fatalism, thousands of people in Southern Italy have...
Last week the 150 state banks of Naples wired to Rome, asking that fifty million lira ($2,500,000) be rushed south at once. Throngs of Neapolitans danced and cavorted through the streets, shrieking, delirious with joy. When the cash began to arrive in vanloads, each of the 150 banks became a scene of pandemonium. Once again...