Word: vi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Landers, who has been selling the world's best seller for 35 years, has on his shelves even greater bargains for non-English speaking peoples. Three cents now supplies the South Sea missionary with portions of the Book in pamphlet form, and last year the Sloop Morning Star VI bore 2000 copies of the Four Gospels in native tongues to King John of Kusiae, and other potentates on the Marshall and Caroline Islands...
Only three newcomers to the notorious politics of Cambridge's Poon Ring survived elections yesterday, as cigarsmoking, derby-hatted Clemens B. Woop VI tightened his grasp over the lives of the Bow Street slum sections. In the traditional first-thirteenth in November recount, Woop carried all two electoral districts, dropping only 23 to his pawky opponent...
Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of the Dominion of India, got the royal nod from his cousin, George VI, on his selection of titles to go with his new earldom (TIME, Aug. 25). Henceforth, it was announced in London, he will be known as Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey of Romsey...
...Duchess of Kent, beauteous widowed sister-in-law of George VI, was assured transportation in fuel-short Britain, come what may. She bought herself a bicycle (and two more for her son and daughter...
...Russia have shown a capacity to blend and harmonize different races and civilizations." Her softly modulated voice was saved for private Kremlin chats with Chairman of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet Nikolai Shvernik and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky. Though her appointment was approved by George VI and she is officially His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador, Mrs. Pandit has always been popular with the Russians for her consistently anti-British line. As India's U.N. representative, her sharp-tongued performance in denouncing "British imperialism" had earned her the smiles and flattery of Vishinsky...