Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brunner compared the modern revolutions to "pseudo-churches using a pseudo-conversion to a pseudo-kingdom of God." He called attention to the fact that they are all interested chiefly in the formation of a new type...
...Unofficial expression by Neville Chamberlain of his resolve to persuade the House of Commons to vote national military conscription in the United Kingdom...
...uncle, childless King Prajadhipok, abdicated. King Ananda Mahidol was allowed to remain in Switzerland to complete his schooling and build up his frail physique, thought unfitted for the wet May-to-October monsoon of Siam. Few months ago Strong Man Phya Phahol "suggested" that King Ananda return to his kingdom at least for a visit...
...brought a 42% rise in U. S. exports to Canada. Far more important is the brand-new agreement with Great Britain, already the biggest foreign buyer of U. S. products; in the first half of 1938 about one-sixth of all U. S. exports went to the United Kingdom...
This week the Duke of Gloucester breaks sod on a hill outside Kampala, capital of Buganda, principal kingdom of Uganda, for the stone buildings of Makerere College for Higher Education, first all-Negro university in East Africa. Recommended by a Royal Commission on Higher Education, the university will speak English, will teach the arts, science, agriculture, medicine, education, veterinary science and engineering to bright young blacks of Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar...