Word: stickpin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler and Mussolini. England's Queen Mary and King Edward VIII were her devoted fans. Norway's moosey King Haakon took to telegraphing her before every public appearance. Germany's Crown Prince Wilhelm called her to him after a performance and impulsively gave her his diamond stickpin, adorned with the Hohenzollern crest. She had a room filled with some 100 gold and silver mugs, gold placques, decorations, certificates. Sonja had almost everything she wanted-but not quite everything. She had a consuming desire to be a movie star...
...Tsar, an enthusiastic locomotive driver, on a trip to Bulgaria in 1932. After exchanging $31 worth of pleasantries, Tsar Boris rang off. Previous gifts that have passed between the Tsar and the Nebraska engineer include two miniature locomotives from Gus Phillips, 16 bottles of choice wine and a diamond stickpin from Tsar Boris...
...selling Catholic art to Pennsylvania miners, Mike Quill three and a half years ago organized the Transport Workers of America, a healthy C.I . 0. affiliate which this summer signed New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. to its first closed shop contract. Unionist Quill, who wears a shamrock stickpin and estimates that 80% of his transport workers are fellow Irishmen, jokes: "It took the labor movement of America to bring the Irish people together...
...Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, was haled into Manhattan City Court by his divorced wife, who demanded payment of $730 back alimony. Pleaded Farley: "I am overdrawn $200 at the Chase National Bank. ... I have only $20 in my pockets, and all the property I have is a pearl stickpin, a watch and a cheap pair of cuff links. I am unemployed...
...royalty would be her devoted fans. Queen Mary gasped when she saw Sonja in 1928, deplored the fact that she herself could not figure skate. Edward VIII has paid her many a kingly compliment. In 1934 ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany gave her his diamond stickpin crowned with the Hohenzollern crest. Her own sovereign, King Haakon VII of Norway, sends her a telegram or cable before every foreign appearance. And Reichsführer Adolf Hitler this winter invited Sonja and her parents to his Munich abode, gave her a silver-framed picture of himself, talked all evening...