Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right to vote. Last week they wished they had given them almost anything else. Too late Don Manuel Azana, a fiery feminist during his 20 dictatorial months as Premier of a Socialist Coalition government, remembered the words of the smart British-blooded spinster he made Minister of Prisons, Senorita Victoria Kent: "Spanish women are not prepared for the ballot...
...Dubliners last week Armistice Day was just another unpleasant reminder that Great Britain and the Irish Free State are still parts of the same Empire. They showed their feelings by dynamiting an obelisk on Bray Head erected to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. On Armistice Eve the Irish Republican Army and the Laborites paraded and tiraded through Dublin streets to College Green. There they poured kerosene on two Union Jacks, brandished the blazing banners until only charred staves remained. Leaders howled at the crowd, "Destroy every poppy in Dublin tomorrow and burn every Union Jack and every emblem...
...speaking of Clarence Dillon (Read & Co.) "whose father ran a general store in San Angelo and changed his name from Lapowski to Dillon before Clarence was born"-because-and I speak in a great measure from personal knowledge- The American career of the Dillon-Lapowski family began in Victoria, Texas m the persons of Sam (Dillon's father) and Nathan-a Capt. & Col. in the Texas National Guard-serving in the World War with an enviable record. Sam moved to San Angelo & ran a general store in the name of and was always known as Lapowski: though Clarence...
...only private army in the British Empire is the Army of Atholl, three Scots infantry companies permitted the Dukes of Atholl by Queen Victoria.* Last July their commander, tall, hearty Sir John George Stewart-Murray, eighth Duke of Atholl. "richest man in Scotland." began to sell what he vowed were not lottery tickets. Proceeds of the sale, his agents announced, "shall be disposed of in such manner as the Duke of Atholl shall, in his absolute and uncontrolled discretion, think fit." Some 337,000 Englishmen had enough faith in the Duke of Atholl's dis cretion...
Died. Dr. Inazo Ota Nitobe, 71. "Father of Japanese Liberalism," editor of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi, onetime (1919-27) undersecretary general of the League of Nations; after an operation following pneumonia, in Victoria, B. C. Educated in the U. S. and Europe, he married a Philadelphia girl, returned to Japan to become a university president and an eloquent apostle of internationalism...