Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donald." This was not to say that Kidnappee Chiang, Kidnapper Chang, Financier Soong and Acting-Premier Kung were engaged in emulating the example set fortnight ago by the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin when he eased King Edward from the Throne while loudly protesting that what he had done was to try to keep His Majesty on (see p. 16). In Britain it is the simple solution which is always sought and usually found. In China nothing so takes the bloom off a proposed solution, nothing makes a Chinese statesman so unwilling to bite on it, as simplicity. There could...
...Ford, once asked by Viscountess Astor to tea at her country place on an afternoon when King George & Queen Mary also came for tea (TIME, April 23, 1928). Mr. Ford was, however, twice "commanded" to audience with Edward of Wales, as a special favor before Edward came to the throne...
...same period Connecticut had been illegally organized, although the colonists believed they had a valid charter. It, too, was in danger of the King's vengeance when Charles returned to the throne. Diplomatic Governor Winthrop of Connecticut organized a demonstration of loyalty to the King, then rushed to London, gained membership in the Royal Society through his scientific interests, borrowed ?500 on Connecticut's produce to finance his wire-pulling, actively cultivated English gentlemen who had no compromising connection with the rebels. The result was that Connecticut and Rhode Island received liberal charters guaranteeing them freedom of worship...
Love in Exile (Gaumont-British) would greatly interest England's onetime King Edward VIII, for it begins at the point which his career has just reached (see p. 15). Opening scene shows King Regis VI (Clive Brook) voluntarily abdicating the throne of an unnamed European nation because, 1) he is not allowed to marry a beautiful commoner named Madame Xandra St. Aurlon (Helen Vinson), and 2) because a powerful group wants to get its hands on the government. In this close parallel to the Simpson case, the powerful group is not a Cabinet, but two unscrupulous capitalists who covet...
There, directly beneath the Giannini throne, Banker Mount watched the start & finish of the Depression battle for control of Transamerica, which owns among many other things Bank of America. Protagonists in this historic struggle were Amadeo Peter Giannini and Elisha Walker, who entered Transamerica by way of its investment banking affiliate, Bancamerica-Blair, Mr. Walker having been head of the Blair part. Banker Walker and Banker Giannini differed on a fundamental point. It was Mr. Walker's theory that banks should be divorced from holding companies. Mr. Giannini had spent a great deal of effort doing just the opposite...