Word: ascendency
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portugal, has been dispatched by General Franco to see former King Alfonso XIII. Alfonso fortnight ago held a "conference" of Spanish Monarchists at Lausanne, Switzerland. It has long been thought that in case of a restoration Alfonso's 26-year-old son, Prince Juan, rather than Alfonso, would ascend the throne. The Duke of Maura, eldest son of the onetime Monarchist Premier of Spain, was a trusted adviser of Alfonso, helped frame the final message that Alfonso gave to Spain at the time he was forced from the throne...
...this year near the Chancellery building in Vatican City came upon five sculptured panels. By last week these were generally believed to be part of the Triumphal Arch of Tiberius. One of the carvings bore the only likeness of the studious emperor as an old man (he did not ascend the throne until...
Last week the new chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Commander Francis Wilton Reichelderfer (TIME, Dec. 26), contemplating with satisfaction his new scientific aids for weather forecasting-such as latex balloons (see col. 1) which ascend to great heights, send down upper-air data by means of automatic radio-made a promise: in the future, the Bureau's weathermen would doctor their daily forecasts less often with the weasel word "probably...
...Alps last October to take leave of Führer Adolf Hitler, he thought he was expected at the familiar Berghof, the Führer's well-known mountain chalet near Berchtesgaden. Not far from the Berghof, however, the driver took a different road, the car began to ascend a highway winding five miles up a steep mountain. Soon the highway became a mere shelf on the side of the mountain. Suddenly the road ended before two big bronze doors built in the mountainside...
...client in the New Deal. In 1932 he turned down an appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. In 1933 he turned down Franklin Roosevelt's offer to make him Solicitor General. Last week, however, Franklin Roosevelt made Felix Frankfurter an offer he could not reject: to ascend to the famed "scholar's seat" on the U. S. Supreme Court, succeeding his friend Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, who in turn had succeeded another friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes...