Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ignominiously back to France last week went Prince Juan, 23, youngest and healthiest of Alfonso XIII's sons, heir to the empty throne. Last fortnight he had rushed to Rebel General Mola to offer his services, was refused...
...Numerous eyewitnesses reached London last week with facts about doings in Belfast which had been omitted by British newsorgans unwilling to record the first public demonstration against the King since he came to the Throne...
...Public Enlightenment: "When the Führer addressed his last appeal to the people on March 28, it was as if a profound agitation went through the whole nation; one felt that Germany was transformed into one single House of God, in which its intercessor stood before the throne of the Almighty to bear witness. . . . It seemed to us that this cry to heaven of a people for freedom and peace could not die away unheard. That was religion in its profoundest and most mystical sense. A nation then acknowledged God through its spokesman, and laid its destiny...
...Army to subordination after part of it got out of hand last February, tried to murder the Premier and for a time defied the Emperor. With infinite patience General Terauchi has scrutinized the records of innumerable officers, trying to shift into key positions those of whose loyalty the Throne can be sure...
...noon came the blare of band music and the clatter of hoofs. Down the street rode King Edward, his head almost extinguished under the enormous bearskin of the Grenadier Guards. Behind him clattered his equerry. Major Sir John ("Jackie") Renton Aird, and behind him the stolid heir to the throne, the Duke of York...