Word: maharaja
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Like Hearst, Rothermere collected objects of art and stored them away. Like Hearst he was a patriotic tub-thumper, a violent Red-baiter. He lived like a maharaja, traveled with an entourage of editors, friends, servants, women. He was lavish with money, but was never the resourceful editor Northcliffe had been...
When meek, ascetic little Sir Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur died last month (TIME, Aug. 12) he left no son to succeed him as Maharaja of Mysore. Last week Mysore bedecked itself for a two-day religious ceremony, watched a procession of bejewelled elephants, a solid silver coach. Occasion: coronation of its new Maharaja, Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, son of Krishnaraja's late hard-drinking playboy brother, Kanthirava...
Died. Colonel His Highness Sir Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, G. C.S.I., G.B.E., Maharaja of Mysore, second richest man in India; of heart disease; in Bangalore. A rigid ascetic (his late brother was a dancer-ogling, jazz-crooning rum-pot), the childless Maharaja denied himself meat, fish, eggs, tobacco, alcohol, but kept a fleet of 80 limousines, had a miniature train to serve food to the scores of guests who usually surrounded his banquet table...
With Pekingese and parrot, Mrs. Jennie Miller of Seattle prepared to sail for India to visit her daughter, Nancy Ann Miller, who since 1928 has been apple-of-the-eye and wife No. 3 of rich Tukoji Rao III, ex-Maharaja of Indore...
Second most important native potentate in India (after the Nizam of Hyderabad) is the Maharaja of Mysore. He rules over a prosperous plateau State twice as big as Switzerland, with rich revenues from silk, gold, sandalwood and agriculture-of which the Maharaja himself gets $13,000,000 annually. Its high altitude gives Mysore the healthiest climate in India. A sober, hard-working ruler, the childless Maharaja early designated his brother Sir Sri Kanthirava Narasimharaja Wadiyar Bahadur to be Yuvaraja-heir apparent. Last fortnight the Yuvaraja, one of the most glamorous, eccentric figures in the East, was dead before the Maharaja...