Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Council, was about to announce results of a ''Thank Offering" collected among the women when suddenly a plain churchman whom few recognized leaped up, strode to a microphone before the high altar. As Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry looked on with amazement from his throne, Rev. Cornelius Polhemus Trowbridge of Salem, Mass, cried: "I am not Franklin, but I am a minister of Christ. I have the permission of the Bishop of New Jersey to make a brief statement. I feel . . . that the contribution [$5,139] made at yesterday's magnificent opening service was entirely...
...Gertrude Massey, miniaturist to many a royal family, gave Britishers last week a brand new story of their Prince of Wales. At the age of 6, when Victoria was still on the throne. Prince Edward was sitting for a portrait. Suddenly he wanted to know: "Are there any kings and queens in heaven or when you are an angel is everybody equal...
...What joint political or military measures should they take if Otto of Habsburg should regain the throne of Austria or Hungary...
Jugoslavian Ministers called the new King, 11-year-old Peter, home from school in England to his throne. He was to rule under a Regency which would undoubtedly include his mother Marie but not, thought observers, his scapegrace Uncle George. Enroute to Paris by train, home-loving Queen Marie, 34, sister of Rumania's Carol, heard of her husband's death at Besancon, turned and sped under heavy guard to Marseilles, asked that the body be untouched until she came...
...Vienna last week there was talk of only one thing, that Archduke Otto, 21-year-old exiled pretender to the Austrian Throne, was about to inherit a greater fortune than any other man of 1934. For a week Duke Maximilian von Hohenberg, the assassination of whose father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, set off the World War in 1914, had been conferring with onetime Chancellor Otto Ender about the restoration of Habsburg properties confiscated during revolution. Last week their plans were well under way. To Otto, as head of the house, will go Habsburg jewels and plate, Habsburg stockholdings, most of which...