Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continent of Europe last week, save Sweden's Gustaf, there was only one King who could call his crown his own. This was Boris III of Bulgaria. And among Europe's hurrying traders in sovereignty, this sovereign's was perhaps the most ticklish predicament of all, his footwork perhaps the neatest...
...Parliament and established Boris as the somewhat bewildered figurehead of a military dictatorship. Boris buckled down to serious work and within a year made it just plain dictatorship, with the Army very much in the background. He had married Princess Giovanna, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III, and has carefully borne in mind the example of his powerless father...
...whole sale foe of the New Deal, put its feelings in particular form. They were not all black. Ignoring That Man, the managers of U. S. industry told which of his measures they liked, which they disliked. If businessmen and New Dealers are to cooperate more closely in Term III than in Terms I & II, the views expressed by businessmen this week were a good basis for a practical agenda...
...Harold T. Wilkins the world is a musty parchment marked "Unexplored," "Galleon Sunck Heer," "Ye Treasure iii Leagues S.W." Panorama of Treasure Hunting is his sixth book on buried ingots and briny chests, prehistoric cities along the feverish Amazon and gold dust combed from the pelts of Klondike grizzlies. Many treasures are hunted, few are found. But their seekers are slaves to the quest as gamblers to the wheel, hopheads to the needle...
Subsequent lectures in the series of six, to be given this week and next, will be: Wednesday, "The Consent of the Governed"; Friday, "Democracy and Common Counsel"; December 9, "Democracy and Administrative Management"; December 11, "Elements in a Democratic Program, II"; and December 13, "Elements in a Democratic Program, III...