Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempting to prevent a possible European war, for unifying his nation, and risking his life in the defense of it. for TIME'S Man of the Year, I nominate a monarch, scholar, statesman, and hero-the Emperor Halle Selassie...
...princess had been known all her life in the Royal Family as "Toria," suffered incessantly from various complaints, and had never married because, in the Victorian phrase, "her beloved was of less than royal station." King George called her his "sweetest sister." She gravely and dutifully aided that merry monarch Edward VII as his personal secretary until his death. Then, with her beautiful and imperious mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra, she passed into even more dutiful retirement, became "Alexandra's shadow." Not until she was 57 did Princess Victoria ever have a house of her own, and then...
...Daily Record's monarch of the presses...
...Like a monarch with a cabinet, the "Black Pope" of the Society of Jesus has a curia of seven assistants. All must live in Rome. Last week "Black Pope" Wlodimir Ledochowski, able, rugged Pole, summoned Very Rev. Zacheus J. Maher of San José, Calif, to be his assistant for North America. San Francisco-born Jesuit Maher has been president of Santa Clara University...
...Roosevelt to defend its concession with U. S. arms. Like every great oil company, it has scores of concessions and near-concessions on its hooks, plays them close to the chest, dropping one trick here, taking another there. Last week it dropped a trick in Ethiopia because a minor monarch got it into his kinky head that it would be good defensive strategy to rush the concession to signature at a critical juncture in his country's history and then blab about it to the world. Said a rueful Standard Oilman in Manhattan, in a matchless piece of understatement...