Word: stateswomanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., now famed for its "Empress'' ships. First of the new series was the Duchess of Atholl. Came to her recent launching Katherine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl. Hers was the christening bottle. She tended and swung it with the gracious assurance of a stateswoman, for she is now Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Education, a post to which she graduated in 1924, after holding high executive positions in British educational and Red Cross work. Why, then, was it Mrs. Baldwin who christened, last week, the Duchess of Bedford? Why not Her Grace of Bedford...
Before the War, the strict Court discipline of genial German King Carol repressed her democratic sympathies and her natural abilities as stateswoman and businesswoman. With the coming of War, she shed her frivolous exterior, became a nurse and truly endeared herself to Rumanians who to this day call her "our Angel Queen" as they had called her "Angel without wings" when she married Ferdinand. She once said: "We hope that during our reign Rumania may grow in greatness and happiness. To consecrate all my efforts to the alleviation of misery and pain is the mission to which, as with...