Word: viii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal tribute to Stanley Baldwin (TIME, Jan. 4) is going to be used by the Nuffield Trustees in conjunction with a scheme in which Government funds will be used to buy up to 25% of the capital stock of new factories set up in the areas Edward VIII used to tour. South Wales is to get several brand-new plants in which war explosives will be made, and in Lancashire a single new factory erected to fill projectiles with these explosives is to cost ?6,000,000 ($30,000,000)-or three times the sum given by Lord Nuffield...
...duty was paid when it entered the U. S. after having been built at Kiel during blackest years of German depression. Sea Cloud ranks as one of the world's most opulent yachts, roughly matching in swank the Nahlin rented by Edward VIII for his Balkan cruise last summer. Coronation time it will lie off Southampton, taking the Davieses cruising to the Spithead naval review, and after the English festivities are over, according to Ambassador Davies this week, the Sea Cloud will cruise across the North Sea into the Baltic and tie up at Leningrad-the first right royally...
...Royal Naval College, cadets nicknamed the future George V when he was a cadet "The Sprat." Edward VIII as a cadet was "The Sardine." The more serious, studious nature of George VI made him, as a cadet, "Dr. Johnson" and later "Mr. Johnson." It was soon evident that the present King was the only scion of the Royal Family ever to show a definite mechanical bent. Ship mechanisms became his major interest. Even today His Majesty is fond of the exceedingly intricate model railways-not "toys" but "scale models" costing in some cases up to $20,000 for a complete...
Queen Elizabeth, although the daughter of an earl and descended from the most illustrious Scottish nobility, is technically the "first commoner" to become Queen of England since Henry VIII's Queen Catherine Parr. In nothing has Her Majesty been common, except in dress, for it was undeniable that as Duchess of York she was "the sloppiest dresser in the Royal Family." This was the result of misplaced loyalty to her Scottish maid, an honest wench who, realizing perhaps more keenly than anyone else how unfit she was to dress the Queen of England, tearfully protested her inadequacy...
...Journal was announcing that its January circulation had hit its all-time high of more than 2,900,000 copies. The advertisement also took note of the spectacularly wrong editorial guess which led off the record-breaking January Journal: a frontispiece and full-page color portrait of Edward VIII, "BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AND OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS, KING. . . ." The Journal's coronation story by able Writer Henry F. Pringle and its accompanying pictures of Edward VIII were made up in the autumn. Last week's Journal trade announcement...