Word: regent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...POLICE NADOSSY AND PRINCE WINDISCH-GRAETZ TEARFULLY CONFESS TO COUNTERFEITING 30,000,000,000 FRENCH FRANCS! Possible Fascist Putsch to Set up Archduke Albrecht of Hapsburg as Kaiser of Hungary Nipped by French Detectives! Premier Count Stephen Bethlen Believed Well Pleased at Developments, Which May Discredit His Rival, the Regent of Hungary, Nicholas Horthy...
...Situation. Observers were inclined to dwell upon the fact that Hungary is officially the Kingdom of Hungaria, "a kingdom without a king." Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya is "Regent" for a hypothetical monarch who remains to be chosen; and Horthy administers Hungary under the old Monarchial Constitution...
...Adopted resolution appointing Dwight W. Morrow regent of the Smithsonian Institution...
Japanese Intervention. From Tokyo a cold decisive message clicked out over the cables: "By order of General M. Kawai, Chief of the Japanese General Staff, and with the consent of the Prince Regent of Japan and Premier Kato, 3,500 Japanese troops have been despatched to Mukden, [capital of the Chinese provinces of Manchuria]. This action is taken at the request of the consuls of the Great Powers at Mukden, who have asked protection for their nationals from the armies of the Chinese military leaders, Chang Tso-lin and Kiio Sung-lien, now attempting to engage each other...
...proposed and sanctioned by 80 votes against 5 to depose Sultan Ahmad Shah from the throne of Persia and cancel forever the dynasty of Kajars. Meanwhile Reza Khan Pahlavi, the Prime Minister and Commander in Chief of all Persia's force, will act as a regent till a senate be formed and decide the form of government, i. e., whether a Republic or as before. I shall let you hear more details of affairs in future...