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Word: kingless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered the Spanish people to vote on his new law of succession. A yes vote would not only make Franco "Chief of State" for life in a kingless "kingdom," but would give him the legal right to name the king or regent who would succeed him. A no vote simply meant that Franco would continue as dictator of Spain, without even a shadowy commitment to restore the monarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Hobson's Choice | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...noon, the wishing hour of mystic Adolf Hitler, four men sat down to scribble the future on four copies of a pact. By their penmanship the kingless kingdom of Hungary joined the three-way pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan on Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Signatures on the Axis | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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