Word: regent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Henry Heift, blackamoor, was arraigned for vagrancy. "What have you to say?" asked the judge. "I am the Chief Regent of the New Argentine Imperial," said Heift. "I am about to organize an expedition to travel into the solar system." He produced a copy of The Solar Path, prospectus written by himself. "With each copy of this I give away a bond redeemable for $20 in 1960. ... At a height of about 800 miles from here, there is a solid land, a new earth. There we will find riches and precious stones in abundance and we intend to claim...
...report that an unknown assailant attempted to assassinate Regent Nicholas Horthy von Nagybanya (TIME, Feb. 9) proved to be untrue...
Hungary is still a kingdom-its old constitution is unchanged. In place of the King is a Regent, Admiral Horthy. His powers are limited mainly to exercising the royal functions without the effective power of vetoing legislation. Just for whom he is Regent is a problem that most Hungarians shirk; some say for himself; some say for Prince Otto, oldest son of Kaiser Karl; some say for a King who is yet to be elected. The problem is, however, satisfactorily settled for the time being by electing Yankee Jeremiah Smith as financial king-a Yankee at the Court...
...would be truer to say that Budapest, the capital, became a Republic. Bolshevism succeeded Republicanism and was even shorter lived; for in August, 1919, after a harrowing Rumanian occupation, the Monarchists, led by Admiral Horthy, were once again in power. Horthy was elected Royal Governor, usually translated as Regent. He was invested with some of the royal powers, was empowered to enact the legislation of his Royal Hungarian Government-but for whom was he acting? When Karl was alive, Horthy publicly declared that he was keeping the throne warm for his Monarch. After Karl's death in 1922, both...
Today he is Regent of Hungary. For whom he is Regent is not clear; many believe for himself, although lit declared at one time that he was holding the fort for banished Kaiser Karl. But, when the latter returned for the first time, Horthy successfully opposed him and, on his second attempt, to seize the throne, the Admiral fought him, had him handed over to the Allies, who took him to Madeira. In all fairness, Horthy was obliged to oppose the return of his Monarch, for the armies of the Little Entente were mobilizing on Hungary's frontiers...