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Members of Congress and other Washingtonians received a royal proclamation inviting them to join the "Chivalric citizenry" of the "Royal and Beneficent Domain" of the "Knights of the Flaming Sword," a rival of the Ku Klux Klan now being advanced by William J. Simmons, one-time promoter of the Klan...
...Navy, this meant great shame and dishonor. Most of the high naval officers sadly put their clothes away with moth balls and tried to forget their humiliation. Not so Horthy. Morning, noon and night, breakfast and dinner found him bedecked as an admiral. If he went shooting in the Royal Forest near Gödöllö, his uniform was with him; he took it off when he went to bed and upon the rare occasions when he played tennis. And, as if a uniformed Admiral of a non-existent Navy were not ridiculous enough, he took to riding...
...Madeira. In all fairness, Horthy was obliged to oppose the return of his Monarch, for the armies of the Little Entente were mobilizing on Hungary's frontiers. His alleged insolent attitude toward the Kaiser and the shelling of the Imperial train were unnecessary acts; and the royal state in which he now lives has firmly impressed upon a large percentage of the Hungarian people that the cavalry Admiral Inquisitioner of the White Terror, the Protestant apostate (he embraced Roman Catholicism when he became Regent, ''not unmindful," say some, "of the Hungarian basic law" which, limits succession...
...remarkable contributions to the world's knowledge of astronomical subjects Professor Bailey has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Science, the Geographical Society of Lima, Peru, the Astronomische Gesellschaft, and an associate of the Royal Astronomical Society of London. These honors have been showered on him by the most prominent societies in nearly every important country in Europe and South America in recognition of his unparalleled services not only to the United States but to other countries as well...
Immediately after the announcement of Dean Pound's decision to remain at the University comes the news of his election as foreign fellow of the Academy of Moral and Political Science of the Royal Society of Naples...