Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contention a-bubbling by despatching to Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands and the U. S., a declaration that the control of Tangier by Spain is necessary to prevent the importation of contraband munitions by Moroccans rebellious against the regime of Spain in Spanish Morocco. The Powers to whom this declaration was despatched, are, of course, signatories in whole or in part* to the Act of Algeciras (1906), delimiting the foreign spheres of influence in Morocco. By the supplemental Franco-British-Spanish Convention of 1923, the permanent neutrality of Tangier has been established and the city placed under...
...King-Emperor, apparently convinced that peace was not in sight, summoned Parliament to reassemble long enough to ratify an extension of the Emergency Power Act. The House of Commons under Premier Baldwin's firm hand, complied by a vote of 332 to 91. Laborite J. J. ("Jumping Jack") Jones became so excited that he had to be suspended again...
General Kondylis promised-as did General Pangalos when he seized power (TIME, July 6, 1925, et seq.)-that elections will shortly be held. At present Greece has no Parliament, and but slim chances that the new electoral promises will be kept better than the old ones which were not kept at all. At London, King George II, a first cousin once removed of George V of Britain, declared: "We have no personal desire for the throne of Greece, but if it is for the good of our country, then we are willing to return at any time...
Paradoxically Dictator-President Kemal rose to fame and power as a general in the Young Turk armies, a subordinate of the men hanged by his orders last week. Not until General Kemal Pasha proved himself the ablest Turkish World War commander was he able to rally a Turkish Nationalist following from within the Young Turk movement and to organize this clique into the present Kemal-dominated Turkish dictature...
...exchange a philosophical career for swordplay in her service. This swordplay, these daggers by night and poisoned wine-goblets; a Milanese tyrant blood-hounding men for sport; a hundred delicate situations saved by Macchiavelian wit or pretty compliments; and Bellarion, "half god, half beast," rising to power and at last claiming the lady-these are swiftest, richest Sabatini, than whom no sword-and-cloak man is more deservingly remembered, in the public's orisons...