Word: umbertos
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...unimaginative rich, was expected back again. In the swank Cafe Bazar and Count Alfred Salm's tearoom across the way, chatter about the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's impending arrival all but submerged the news that King Carol of Rumania, King Leopold III of Belgium, Prince Umberto of Italy, the young Franklin Roosevelts were coming...
Mussolini's small-statured sovereign Vittorio Emanuele III canceled at Rome last week the Italian delegation headed by Crown Prince Umberto which was to have represented His Majesty at the British Coronation. Reason: Vittorio Emanuele III and his subjects, including Il Duce, are united in considering His Majesty not only King of Italy but also Emperor of Ethiopia, united too in refusing to stomach what they call the "British insult" de livered when George VI invited Haile Selassie to send a native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure...
...grew furious. II Duce's press thundered that Italy's Royal House of Savoy is justly renowned for the wisdom of Vittorio Emanuele III, added that His Majesty "cannot make other than the correct choice" in deciding whether or not to send Italian Crown Prince Umberto to sit in Westminster Abbey with a black-faced Ethiopian...
...Mother of the Belgians, was unable to reach her bedside in time. When the babe was one day old he was carried on a satin pillow into the chapel of the Royal Palace where Cardinal Ascalesi, Archbishop of Naples, christened him with twelve names: Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amadeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria...
...before dawn, early-rising President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines reached for a light switch, barked his shins in the dark, found his way to a telephone, ordered immediate cancellation of Philippine daylight saving time two weeks before it was scheduled to end by law. In Florence, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy called upon Crown Prince Mihai of Rumania who had just had his royal appendix out. Mihai, 15, had been stricken while visiting his mother Princess (once Queen) Helen. His father King Carol kept in touch by telephone from Bucharest where His Majesty's brother Prince Nicholas...