Word: tsars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excitedly talked plans for two days. Even the Franciscan brothers in the monastery, the Poor Clares in their convent, read their offices with a certain worldly detachment. For Princess Giovanna, next-to-youngest daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, was coming to Assisi to be married to little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria...
...trains: i) the Blue Train which brought Marie Jose of Belgium to Rome for her wedding to Italian Crown Prince Umberto; 2) the Maroon Train, generally used by the Italian Royal Family; 3) a more gaudy, less comfortable relic known as the "Old Train" assigned for the wedding to Tsar Boris, his father Ferdinand, brother Cyril, sister Eudoxia...
...Author. Michael Ossorgin, 52, Russian intellectual and member of the nobility, was banished by the Tsar for Liberalism, by the Bolsheviks for the same reason. Since 1922 he has lived in Paris. Says he: "Above all else I value freedom, but I have drunk deep of prison life. I dislike newspapers, yet I have been a journalist for 30 years...
Engaged. Boris (III) Clement Robert Marie Pius Louis Stanislaus Zavier, 36, Greek Orthodox King and Tsar of the Bulgarians, Duke of Saxe; and the Princess Giovanna Elisabetta Antonia Romana Maria, 22, Roman Catholic daughter (third) of King Vittorio Emanuele & Queen Elena of Italy; by permission of the King & Queen of Italy...
...after South Africa, the U. S. and Canada as the world's fourth largest producer. Even in her year of reddest revolution (1918) she produced $12,000,000 in gold, and last year she reached an output of $24,000,000, nearly up to pre-War volume. Under Tsar Nicholas II the gold reserve of the Imperial Russian Bank was maintained at $800,000,000-twice that of the Bank of England. Today the gold reserve of the Soviet State Bank...