Word: patriarchal
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...which his father had once renounced his throne, he was said to have penned a similar letter. Mihai, Carol's son, was declared next in succession. Then King Ferdinand died, and little Mihai was put on the throne surrounded by a regency consisting of his uncle, Prince Nicholas, Patriarch Miron Cristea, Supreme Court President George Buzdugan...
Died. The Abuna Abraham, 77, blind Patriarch of the "Independent National Church of Ethiopia" (Coptic), who was appointed in 1937 by the Italians when the Abuna Cyril fled to Egypt and started a schism between the Ethiopian and Egyptian Coptic Churches; in Addis Ababa...
British Labor's newspaper, the London Daily Herald, reported Rumania's smooth-cheeked Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu forgot his umbrella while calling on the Greek Patriarch at Istanbul, hastily sent a man back to fetch it, exclaimed in consternation: "What is a diplomat without his umbrella...
President Charles E. Brinley, who now fills the shoes of genial Patriarch Samuel Vauclain as head of Baldwin's management, may get Baldwin's break-even point down to its old $30,000,000 level (it was in the red last year on total business of $33,000,000). If he does, U. S. Naval expansion should soon increase Baldwin's non-locomotive business enough to put the company in the black. If Baldwin then got another $30,000,000 of locomotive business, and $5-10,000,000 of railroad accessory business, thanks to the Government...
...Bucharest to see King Carol. When the King visited London last November, British Baptists and other Protestants sat on his doorstep until they were permitted to tell their story to the Rumanian Foreign Minister. Last February, Baptists devoted a "Day of Prayer" throughout the world to the Rumanian situation. Patriarch Cristea, fairly promptly, died (TIME, March...