Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forced through Parliament by Dictator Bratiano with no other purpose than to secure as regents three puppets. First is Prince Nicholas, 23, a youth of no experience in statecraft; and the other two regents, both over 60, and both "Bratiano men," are the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Rumania, Miron Cristea, and Supreme Court Chief Justice G. V. Buzdugan. The choice of Chief Justice Buzdugan was especially shrewd because, if the Regency Act is unconstitutional, as many jurists contend, it can only be declared so by the Supreme Court...
...Roman Catholics will not officially join this movement. The reason: the Roman Catholic Church presumes exclusive religious authority delegated from God. From that viewpoint, Protestant sects are but erring scions. "Orthodox" churches subordinate phenomena. *Dr. Cadman's feature column continues in that newspaper while he visits abroad...
...orita de Alvarez led by one game and fairly scintillated pleasure. Throughout she had shown the full gamut of emotion whenever a point went for or against her. Europeans in the gallery warmed to approval of her frank spontaneity. Anglo-Saxons beamed pridefully upon the correct, emotionless, orthodox sportswomanship of Miss Wills...
European Socialists generally consider Foreign Minister Emile Vandervelde of Belgium the greatest French-speaking orator of their party now alive. His fame is international, his Socialism orthodox, courageous, enlightened. Therefore he did something last week, which recalled his refusal to shake hands with Signor Benito Mussolini at the Locarno Conference (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) on the imputed grounds that Il Duce is a backslidden Socialist turned traitor to "The Cause...
Observers felt that M. Trotzky had given the Soviet regime a final black eye before the world by insisting on just those "orthodox" Communist policies of impractical violence and "world revolution" which the shrewd Josef Stalin is seeking to hold in check...