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...nature trembles to the throne...
...Union Jack-we will always honor it. . . . But we have nothing peculiarly and indisputably our own ... as the symbol of this great nation of ours." Conservative George R. Pearkes plumped for the Red Ensign.* Conservative Thomas Church cheered for the British Union Jack: "One flag . . . one anthem, one throne, one Empire." So many had ideas that at session's end decision had to be deferred...
...home had long been known, his move long expected. But Alba, an ardent monarchist, might have been expected to stick at his post so long as he could do anything to help Pretender Don Juan de Bourbon, who has been waiting in Switzerland for the call to the throne. Apparently negotiations between Spain's moderate, non-Falangist faction and the Don Juanists had broken down. And Britain's Labor Government had shown no disposition to back a monarchist restoration in Spain...
...Switzerland, Belgium's Leopold bowed to temporary exile, but by no means to permanent renunciation of his throne...
Norton Simon climbed to his tin can throne by a simple formula: don't start a business yourself; buy up those already started and run them better. The son of a dry-goods merchant, Simon enrolled at the University of California when he was 17. He quit a few weeks later because he was making too much money-selling paper products and from investments in a small theater where he had put his profits-to waste his time in school. He went to work for a steel-products firm, quit to buy his first business, a steel jobbing plant...