Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, son of the No. 2 British Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere. In his great, mass-conscious penny-press thunders Rothermere: "I have just returned from a trip around the world. . . . Everywhere unstinted praise and admiration of our King! . . . You cannot smuggle the greatest living Englishman off the throne of England during the weekend...
...handed to reporters at the Hotel Majestic by Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow, close friend of Edward VIII: "The following is an official statement. . . . Mrs. Simpson, throughout the last few weeks, invariably has wished to avoid any action which would hurt or damage His Majesty or the Throne. . . . She is willing, if such action would solve the problem, to withdraw forthwith from the situation." In the London circle of Mrs. Lucy Baldwin this statement is called "impudent and melodramatic...
...House of Commons: Swayed by Sunday's jeers, the Cabinet on Monday are in full retreat from their original position of attempting to rush His Majesty off the British Throne. The Prime Minister makes an astonishing statement that his previous announcement of the Cabinet's absolute refusal to assist in arranging a morganatic marriage had no reference to the King's ever having been officially advised by the Cabinet to do or refrain from doing anything. "All my conversations with His Majesty," says Mr. Baldwin, "have been strictly personal and informal. . . . These matters were not raised first...
...standing-not politicians suddenly turned "King's Men," but the urbane Gentlemen of the Royal Household-a measure of tranquillity has existed all through last week's constitutional crisis. While recognizing that the tremendous forces unleashed may get beyond control and suddenly alter the succession to the Throne, they recall the flair of King George for arriving at astonishingly simple common-sense solutions of royal complications...
...matters as pertain to the actuarial aspect of the life insurance business, we know very little-so little that our own personal judgment is worthless. So we have to look to those who know." Loser though he was, Lawrence Mario Giannini, heir apparent to his father's banking throne, announced: "I sincerely hope the plan will succeed." Meantime Commissioner Carpenter prepared to journey to Hot Springs, Ark. for a convention of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which opens this week. There he will seek from his fellow commissioners the approval of his plan, which is necessary for Pacific...