Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will and the talent for juggling. He had been raised by a British governess, had worn Eton suits in Bagdad, played tennis. Mistrustful Arabs hawked wild rumors last month through Irak that he planned to marry a British woman. Last week King Ghazi ended that by stepping into his Throne Room before the members of his family and his Cabinet and betrothing himself to Adviser Ali's second daughter, his own first cousin, Princess Alija. Since she had lived all her life behind a veil, all Ghazi knew of his fiancee was that she was 22 and "reported...
...version of last spring's boardroom battle and a list of his good works. With it went a letter from a stockholders' committee, asking for proxies for a special stockholders' meeting in October. Mr. Holmes swore that he was not trying to regain the Texaco throne but only desired election of twelve additional directors. Mr. Holmes openly protested that Texaco had too long been dominated by the Lapham family who had three of the 13 seats - John H. ("Jack") Lapham and his cousin Henry G. Lapham and a Lapham nominee. Albert Rockwell. Seven directors are company executives...
Back on his job as a Ford salesman in Detroit was Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, 25, second in succession to the German throne since his brother Wilhelm married a commoner (TIME, June 12). Salesman Hohenzollern spent most of a six-month vacation in Doom, Holland, failed to sell a Ford to the ex-Kaiser, who calls him "our little American." Said he: "Grandpa certainly is keen about your President Roosevelt...
Zion, in southwest Utah, is Yosemite done in oils. Its fantastic peaks and spires stand on the floor of the Virgin River Canyon in glittering pinks, whites and vermilions. The Great White Throne of Zion has a history as awesome as its name. Only two men have ever stood in the forest which caps its flat and crumbly sides. One was so unnerved by the descent that he was killed on an easier climb two days later. The other fell on the way down, survived only to become a nervous wreck...
When Cyrus Curtis's will was opened a month ago. the public first realized what the family had long known-that Stepson-in-law Martin was not to succeed to the throne. His wife. Alice, was bequeathed $100,000 outright. But so far as the publishing property is concerned, there was no provision for a Martin or any other Pillsbury issue until the direct line of Boks should wither away. To Mary Louise Bok her father left his residences at Wyncote and at Camden, Me., his gorgeous yacht Lyndonia, the income from his Curtis stock, everything he owned-except...