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...King's Speech from the Throne was prepared by Clement Attlee's Labor government, and constituted Labor's statement of policy for the present session. It was mild, conciliatory, and-perhaps prophetically-quite short; it took only twelve minutes to deliver...
When the news of Chiang's return to office reached Hong Kong, headlines in the pro-Communist press jeered: BALDHEAD GOING BACK TO THRONE. In New York City, where he has been convalescing from his stomach operation for almost three months, Acting President Li Tsung-jen received reporters on a windswept terrace in the Bronx. While Madame Li scuffed in annoyance at an occasional leaf (see cut), Li denounced Chiang as a "dictator" and "usurper," doughtily vowed he would "return to crush this movement," but failed to explain when or how. Then he boarded a train for Washington...
...middle of a. left-wing v. right-wing fight in the union, a Redder-than-Robinson Travis might have become permanent president, but "the party decided his Communist affiliation was too well known." A stooge was picked instead. Travis became secretary-treasurer and the power behind the throne...
...years. As she dusted the carved cedar choir stalls of Lima's 300-year-old cathedral, her son Federico, 11, worked beside her. "I came to live here 17 years ago," she said as she finished cleaning the white-enameled spittoon beside the archbishop's throne. "I was the bride of Federico Fritscher, bell-ringer and caretaker of the cathedral. The pay was small but there were tips from the tourists, and here we paid no rental. With our seven children we were poor but happy...
Born. To Count Flemming of Rosenberg, 27, son of Prince Axel of Denmark, and Countess Ruth of Rosenberg (nee Nielsen), 25, Copenhagen businessman's daughter for whom he last year renounced the title of Prince and the right of succession to the throne: their first children, twin sons, the first twins in the history of the Danish royal family; in Copenhagen. Names: Valdemar and Birger...