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...Governor General of Italian East Africa and Viceroy of Ethiopia; of tuberculosis; in Kenya Colony, East Africa. Mussolini's most ardent supporter in the House of Savoy, the tall, slim "Fascist Duke" was believed by many to have been given his African job as grooming for the Italian throne. But in Ethiopia he lost all but 17,000 of his 100,000 troops, surrendered to the British...
...precedent for such an act since James II. "A very good precedent too," snapped the Prince. "No doubt your Royal Highness is familiar with your history," retorted Dr. Lang, "and remembers that the consequences to the King and his family were not so good." (James was driven from his throne after three years, and his luckless heirs, the old Pretender and Bonnie Prince Charlie, lived out their lives in exile...
...good wife would be more help than any six curates. "If I have a curate I do not like," he replied, "I can sack him. But I couldn't sack a wife." Forty years later his views on sacking a husband cost Victoria's great grandson the throne...
...King Leopold III of the Belgians his bride of last September has borne a son, according to the London News Chronicle. The boy, reported born Dec. 30, was named Philip, Prince de Rethy. The Belgian throne will never be his by succession, for when Leopold wed the striking Marie-Lelia Baels, a commoner, last Sept. 11 he renounced such a right for any children by that marriage...
Both Washington and Detroit agreed Nelson had picked no mere throne-warmer. Kanzler started off as a Detroit lawyer in 1915, moved into the Ford orbit a year later when he and Edsel Ford courted (and later married) sisters. With ack-ack rapidity, Kanzler became Ford Motor Co. production manager, then director, then vice president. From Big Bill Knudsen (who then worked for Ford), he picked up production dope never taught in a law school. But Kanzler was always a lawyer, never a down-in-the-shop production man. So in 1926 he became executive vice president of Ford-controlled...