Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, when all British politicians preached free trade, this would have been an unexceptionable remark from the Heir to the Throne. Today there is a potent group in the National Govern-ment who, having swallowed a high tariff and the idea of economic nationalism within the Empire, find it very much to their liking. Leader of this group is long-necked Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer and head of Britain's delegation at the W. E. C. Chancellor Chamberlain, making his last official speech before the Conference's opening, seemed to be replying...
Engaged. Alfonso, 26, Prince of Asturias, eldest son of Alfonso XIII and heir-claimant to the Spanish throne, and Senorita Edelmira Sampedro, 27, daughter of a Cuban merchant, whom the Prince met at a Lausanne sanitarium where he was treated for hemophilia. In the face of his father's bitter opposition to the match, the Prince was quoted: "I love her and want to marry her. Let Juan have the throne...
...Germany's onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm; and one Dorothea von Salviati, 25, commoner; in Bonn. The groom's parents did not attend the wedding. By his act the Prince, considered by monarchists the logical candidate for a Hohenzollern restoration, automatically renounces his claim to the German throne...
...said her life had been saved through his intercession, and representatives of the Daughters of the Holy Cross. On another were President Eamon de Valera of Irish Free State, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria, Princesses Germaine of Habsburg-Lorraine and Elisabeth of Bourbon-Parme. The Pope assumed the Papal throne. A Cardinal and two other prelates approached, knelt, begged thrice that Blessed Andrè Fournet be declared a saint. The Pope twice told all to pray for God's assistance, then declared the petition granted. Silver trumpets blew, all the bells of Rome rang loudly. By ancient ritual...
Engaged. Prince Wilhelm, 26, eldest son of Germany's onetime Crown Prince Wilhelm; and one Dorothea von Salviati, commoner. Many a monarchist has considered young Wilhelm the logical candidate for a Hohenzollern restoration. Under old Prussian law his marriage would not bar him from the throne, but his children could not succeed him. And the marriage must be sanctioned by the head of the family, who last week in Doorn kept silent, was reported grieved...