Word: protectorates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stirling Taylor presents Oliver Cromwell in his true light as one of the great paradoxes of history. At the outset he attributes the confusion and mistatements regarding the Protector to undue consideration of theory at the expense of facts, and proceeds to a minute investigation of the actual facts of Cromwell's life that sets forth the problem of the man inlucid outline...
...exhausted by interminable footless fighting, harried by powerful enemies and treacherous vassals, resolves to sacrifice his questionable independence for peace and pleasure in the palace of some mightier overlord. He chooses Ung Khan as his most likely protector, agrees to surrender two thirds of his revenue, and to live at the court of Caracorom with 2,000 fighting men ready for emergencies. In return he is guaranteed his safety, and the integrity of his kingdom...
Sirs: Why spoil your interesting publication with anything so disagreeable as a criticism of the President's having a protector for their son John ? In view of the fact that Mr. & Mrs. Coolidge gave up one of their sons soon after they moved into the White House, one would almost think that it might be wise to protect, if necessary, the one remaining son. . . . HARYOT HOLT DAY New York...
...haughty redskin brothers, to the haughty strong Sioux nation, with his wife and son beside him, with big medicine in his pocket, came the pale-Wamblee-Tokaha,* New White Chief and High Protector-otherwise Calvin Coolidge, 29th U. S. President, but first President ever to visit any Amerindians on one of the reservations set aside for them by their Caucasian conquerors...
...RESOLVED FURTHER, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the President of the United States, the President of the Senate of the United States, the Secretary of the Navy and to our most valiant and courageous protector and statesman, the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin...