Word: regent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friend and fellow revolutionist of Prime Minister Venizelos, was appointed Grand Admiral for Life in the Grecian Navy in 1919 in recognition of his notable victory over the Turkish fleet in the Balkan War of 1912-13. With the expulsion of King George 11 in 1923, Admiral Koundouriotis became Regent, and with the establishment of the republic, President...
Among those present at the dinner were President Lowell, Professors Greenough and Coolidge, Masters of the first two units of the House Plan, Professor Merriman, and Matthew Luce '91, regent of the University...
Nicholas Horthy, son of Hungary's Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, was thrown from his pony, dragged along the field while playing in a Budapest polo game. His mother and father were looking on. He was taken from the field unconscious, his skull fractured, ribs broken...
...would receive nobody before she left, least of all Supreme Court Justice Constantin Saratzeanu, though he humbly sought an audience. Grandmother Queen Marie could not forgive Justice Saratzeanu for having been elected by Parliament to a vacancy among the three Regents of Rumania (TIME, Oct. 21), a vacancy which she had dearly coveted. As Her Majesty's special train chuffed off toward Balcic all Rumania gasped at an interview blazoned above her name by the Royalist newspaper Universal: "The royal family does not even know what it means to strive for honors and privileges. We do not need such...
Parliament met to elect the new Regent amid tensest excitement, for representatives of the majority Peasant Party had not yet been instructed for whom they were to vote. With a worried pucker in his brow Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu convoked his Cabinet for a last minute huddle behind locked doors. Several U. S. correspondents present bulletined to their editors: The likeliest candidate for the Regency is Queen Marie...