Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome young "Tony" Eden as he alighted. The Emperor, whisked to the Carlton Park Hotel, went at once into a huddle with his U. S., French and Swiss advisers. In this crucial hour His Majesty had need of all the cunning which carried him originally to the Ethiopian Throne. Close to the astute ear of Haile Selassie in Geneva were his famed Yankee, Everett Colson, long "the Brain Trust of Addis Ababa." and his wily French lawyer, Professor Gaston Jeze. The jig might be almost up for Ethiopia, but the Great Powers were going to be stung by her Emperor...
...They declared she planned to make herself Sultana or-almost as unforgivable an insult to a warrior race-get the job for her husband, Datu Umbra, or her father-in-law. Datu Amil-bangsa. The princes grumbled, but the proclamation of Rajamuda's accession was withheld and the throne continued last week to tremble in the balance...
...case of rain the following list of festivities will be moved into the Indoor Athletic Building: 1. Harvard Glee Club Egbnert W. Fisher '36, Accompanist Irving G. Fine '37, Accompanist Tutti Venite Armati Castoldi Glorious Apollo Webbe O Du Eselhafter Martin (Canon) Mozart Then Round About the Starry Throne Handel 2. Songs Miguel Sereque, Jr. The Victor Sanderson The Abbot of Derry Weaver 3. The Pierian Sodality of 1808 Harvard University Orchestra Malcom H. Holmes. Conducter Valse Triste Sibelius Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breve" De Falla 4. Harvard Glee Club Praestat Hoc Nobles Chadwick O Die Frauen Brahms...
...Baarenfels, who was also named Commander of Starhemberg's technically disbanded Heimwehr. For Vice Commander of the Vienna Heimwehr Chancellor Schuschnigg passed over the-fawning application of Major Emil Fey and picked Baron Alfonse de Kloss whose wife is a cousin of Archduke Otto, Habsburg Pretender to the throne of Austria...
Kings' fortunes vanish into the realm of the mysterious because what a King saves up and bequeaths to his heirs is subject to no probate, no inheritance tax. Queen Victoria, having ascended the throne practically penniless, saved at least $9,000,000. Edward VII was a spendthrift. George V was as thrifty as his grandmother. How big a fortune he passed on to King Edward VIII nobody except the Royal family now knows...