Word: vi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When negotiations for a new Anglo-Iraqi treaty were going swimmingly in Britain, the Foreign Office thought it would be a nice gesture for King George VI to send Iraq's regent, Prince Abdul
...Eliot, 49, Missouri-born poet who became a British subject in 1927, received from George VI the Order of Merit-one of the Crown's rarest decorations...
...indeed an honor. J. Edgar Hoover and Byron Price were offered honorary knighthoods by George VI for their wartime services-Hoover as FBI chief, Price as Director of Censorship. Price could now call himself an Honorary Knight Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
During the nuptial week he had a thin time of it. The newspapers paid little attention to him. Some who met him at parties and receptions described him as a disagreeable young man utterly uninterested in everything and everybody. After the wedding breakfast, while other guests, led by George VI, pelted Philip and Elizabeth with flower petals, Michael held aloof, finally walked away...
Susanne Ehrethell '48, president of the 'Cliffe Student Government, stated that if House hours were pushed up from the usual time of 7 o'clock, Radcliffe might formulate a set of rules for College Houses based on Articles VI of the Rules for the Halls of Residence, which ordinarily requires a chaperon to accompany a student to a man's residence. No chaperonage in the Houses is required under the present visiting hours...