Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buckingham Palace whirled the twice royal cavalcade. Portly Ahmed Fuad was soon shown into a suite in what is technically known as "Wing V." There the Egyptian Great Chamberlain marshalled Ahmed Fuad's numerous attendants?not the least of these being a chemist to test his food, a taster to sample it, and two of George V's physicians skilled in antidotes...
...V. RANDOLPH Porterville, Calif...
Prince Henry, third son of George V, spoke modestly enough at a Royal Academy banquet in London, saying: "Please remember that by profession I am a soldier, and that a soldier's training does not lead along the high road...
...Majesty George V, King and Emperor, reputedly ordered conveyed to Conservative Premier Stanley Baldwin last week a very strong though private intimation that His Majesty disapproved the Cabinet's sensational proposal to "reform" the House of Lords (TIME, July 4). The reform would limit the number of peers, and thus, by implication, abolish the sovereign's present prerogative to create additional peers at pleasure. Last week not only the King but a very large number of the younger Conservative M. P.'s made known their opposition to the proposed bill which would vastly increase the power...
...since the recent election (TIME, June 20, 27). Disorder seemed likely as the Fianna Fail ("Republican") deputies, led by famed Eamonn De Valera, appeared, and, for the first time, threatened en masse to take their seats-while persisting in their refusal to take the oath of fealty to George V without which no deputy elected to the Dail can sit therein...