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When Charles' mother was crowned Elizabeth II in 1953, here were many?even among her own cheering subjects???who felt that they were seeing the last of those great coronation pageants, that a tide of egalitarianism was swiftly making obsolete the very concept of monarchy. Now, except among a minority of zealous anti-royalists in Britain, that feeling has almost disappeared. Elizabeth's own gentle, wise and dutiful reign and the growing popularity of her Crown Prince son almost ensure that the foes of monarchy will not have their way. Even if he has to wait at the footstool...
...next day, in a carefully prepared, televised press conference, De Gaulle did talk. Calmly, clearly, he spelled out his stand on a variety of summit subjects???just as he had done in Ottawa only a few days before. Items...
...rigors of Marxist education?the interminable indoctrination lectures, the slanted subjects???soon disillusioned Janos, and he became one of that considerable group of discontented students who have sprung up in all Soviet countries. He wrote a novel about village life and was severely rebuked by the party for attempting to sabotage the People's Democracy. He and some other students wrote and performed a sharp satire on the wreck of Mt. Olympus (i.e., Russian Communism) and were investigated by the AVH, the Hungarian secret police. But the police did nothing to them because the students and intellectuals enjoy a special...
...practically shelved by the new Administration. Relief was being doled in quantities of which he approved. He championed silver and the President gave him and his fellows the Silver Purchase Act. When the Recovery Act was under debate he succeeded in inserting a provision on another of his favorite subjects???forbidding NRA codes to "permit monopolies or monopolistic practices"?and then ultimately voted against the measure. He joined Senator Nye in attacking NRA as a promoter of monopoly at the expense of "the little fellow" and the President gave him the Darrow board to investigate his complaints...
...surpassed by that of appearing on a postage stamp. King Fuad of Egypt was painted from the side, against a tan background which suggested deserts, with a black cloak wrapped around his neck and an expression of monarchical preoccupation. Socialites? who compose the majority of Painter de Laszlo's subjects???included Mrs. David Bruce, Mrs. James B. Duke, Mrs. Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., Miss Hope Iselin, Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, Anne Morgan, and Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus...
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