Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-old Shah of Persia, loved pleasure and gambled too much on the Riviera (TIME, March 10). His 36 ministers last week deposed him. His young brother, the Crown Prince, aged 25, fled the capital. His baby son, aged 2, was named Shah. Thereupon much monstrous agitation for the creation of a republic collapsed. The 36 ministers will enjoy the pleasures of regency for 19 years...
...trouble has been the subservient character of our Government actuated by fear mostly in dealing with Japan. There is more danger of war in the creation of domestic friction by the warring of the races than in politely refusing the Japanese demand, which has been presented to the committee by missionary societies and high officials...
...Dictator, the General, and the Chief of Police did not, however, say all this in so many words. The Dictator said he joined the Hitler plot merely so that he could overthrow it. The General (Von Lossow) said that all they had in mind was the creation of a Directorate, of which Admiral Von Tirpitz was to be a member. Both of them referred to Prince Rupprecht as "His Majesty." The Chief of Police was forced to admit that all three of them were "hand in glove" with Hitler last November. Finally General Von Lossow left the court, refused...
...public utility. David Sarnoff, Vice President and General Manager of the Radio Corporation of America, favors the bill with some modification. Secretary of War Weeks fears its provisions may hamper the Army's Signal Service. Guy E. Tripp, Chairman of the Board of the Westinghouse Company, favors the creation of a super-radio broadcasting system under an interstate radio commission with broad powers. Six or more high-powered stations strategically located at focal points would be interconnected by wire or radio "pick-ups." In addition local stations would serve the various communities with material of local interest. The Westinghouse...
...learning in the Western Hemisphere. In the work of transformation he had the help of well-known scholars and administrators, eminent among them Dunbar and Gurney. But Mr. Eliot was the original, irresistible force. He is a great man, the title of whose greatness rests mainly on his creation of the first university in America...