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"He set out to marry Mary Owens, and when she would not have him he was enraged and proceeded to degrade her by a vulgarity of words which were as well untrue. ... No letter has been found that Lincoln wrote Anne Rutledge, and none that she wrote him. When she...
An awesome, a tremendous sight was the lying-in-state of beloved "Papa" Joffre, Marshal of France. Last week the Chamber of Deputies met for the first time since his death (TIME, Jan. 5). Up, up the steep steps of the Tribune the oldest pair of legs in the chamber...
Two million lei is roughly $12,000. At this price the funeral was dirt cheap- consisting as it did of three special railway trains with dining cars attached and an entire series of funeral services, one at each city en route with final honors at Bucharest.
According to Widow Bratianu, however, the Peasant Party (bitter political foes of her husband whom they ousted from the Prime Ministry) cleverly "entrapped" her into the 2,000,000 lei expense. When her husband died the Cabinet offered to carry him to the grave as a charge on the national...
Champagne was allegedly consumed in the funeral dining cars. For this and for all expenses not specifically ordered by herself Widow Bratianu last week stoutly refused to pay. Excitable Rumanian Treasury officials threw up their hands, told reporters: "We are greatly surprised at the attitude of Livia Bratianu! Possibly the...