Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal's uncertainties. Back in town Editor Moley wrote inspired reassurances in Today and Mr. Astor closeted himself with one tycoon after another to relate how things were going to come out all right in the end. The biggest news that Mr. Astor brought back from the throne room was that President Roosevelt was going to make Bernard Mannes ("Bernie") Baruch head of the reorganized...
...canard that "a mysterious letter by which her Founder-Father willed her his throne" was to be presented by Miss Booth at the High Council is, of course, ridiculous. William Booth exercised his legal right and named his son Bramwell Booth to succeed him. Having done that he had no further power of controlling the succession. William Booth died in 1912, the only General of The Salvation Army who had the power of nominating his successor. Evangeline Booth was duly elected General by the legally constituted body deriving its authority from the Act passed in the British Parliament...
Never one to dodge an unpleasant fact is Queen Wilhelmina, whose speeches from the throne have sounded a descending scale of pessimism ever since 1930. While other countries have cut their debts by the simple device of inflating currency. Holland sticks tenaciously to its gold florin. Both in Amsterdam and Rotterdam rifles have cracked this summer as Dutch unemployed rioted against cutting their dole to an average of $6 per unemployed family per week. Thus spoke the Queen...
...budget by painful slices of 93,000,000 guilders ($63,000,000) in expenditures, but even so Holland was ready to spend $8,240,000 for new ships for the East Indian Navy. A few would not stay silent. No sooner had Queen Wilhelmina sunk back on her plush throne than three Communist Deputies rose before their horrified colleagues to shout objections. Hustled from the room, they were promptly arrested...
Born. To Henri Robert, Count of Paris, and the Countess of Paris: a daughter. Princess Hélène (their third child); near Brussels, Belgium. Father of the Count of Paris is Jean, Due de Guise, Orleans pretender to the throne of France...