Word: viii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: May I be the first to make a nomination for your Man of the Year for 1936? For this honor I would name King Edward VIII, ruler of the empire upon which the sun never sets...
Sirs: Roosevelt is the standard bearer for an onrush. Were he not here, another would have carried the banner, less capably perhaps, but still carried it. Edward VIII has started a movement toward the disintegration of the oligarchy of England which will affect Great Britain profoundly and Europe as well. Comparisons are odious, but I vote for the originator-King Edward as Man of the Year-or maybe I should vote for Wally...
...nomination for Man of the Year, and running in the order listed, now are: Roosevelt, Edward VIII, Mrs. Simpson, Landon, Farley, Mussolini, Gehrig, Dr. Townsend, Mr. Simpson. The poll closes...
...everything in their power to insulate His Majesty last week from serious matters. A copy of the open letter from Welsh jobless was handed to one of the royal equerries at Cwmbran, another to the equerry at Pontypool, and copies were even strewn on the streets walked by Edward VIII. When the Chairman of the Blaenavon Town Council dragged the petition into a conversation with His Majesty, the King appeared to know nothing about it, asked, "Where is it? I want to read...
...Hampton Court in an apartment at the disposal of King Edward. In the circumstances His Majesty is unlikely to turn Mrs. Woods out of Hampton Court, and she was reported to have laid before members of the Central Council of the Mothers Union a proposal that Bachelor Edward VIII be waked upon by delegations of British Mothers who will "implore His Majesty to do nothing which could be construed as weakening the moral fibre of the British nation...