Word: oligarchs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Janet Phillips, socially able eldest daughter of Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr., Oklahoma & Pennsylvania oil & gas oligarch, onetime (1923-1927) Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, and director of, among other companies, the Shell Union Oil Corp.; to Leander McCormick-Goodhart, U. S.-born, English-educated subject of H.M. King George V, now commercial secretary of the British Embassy at Washington...
Since everyone knew that King Michael's signed proclamation had been drafted by Premier Jon Bratiano, the ruling oligarch of Rumania (TIME, July 11), it was perhaps "natural" and "fitting" that the boy-king's first state paper should thus bristle with elderly, drawing-room conceits. It was like Jon Bratiano, 63, to approve phrases such as "laurels gathered on the battlefields," and "eyes [King Ferdinand's] which never ceased to contain unlimited affection." What did phrases matter to the Dictator? A man-king approaching his second childhood had simply been replaced by a boy-king in his first...