Word: regent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humanist mind hates folly. Lawyer John Francis ("Jack") Neylan, onetime political and financial reporter, was until 1937 lord high chancellor of the Hearst empire. Before that (1911-17) he was chairman of the State finance body which put California on a budget. For eleven years he has been a regent of the University of California. He is a director of great National City Bank (Manhattan). Nowadays he commutes to San Francisco from his ranch in the mountains to the south. Last fortnight Jack Neylan appeared before a patriotic meeting on San Francisco's Treasure Island and, well aware that...
Prince Paul, Senior Regent of Yugoslavia until 15-year-old King Peter comes of age, has lately been doing much thinking about Croat grievances, with an eye to settling them before Messrs. Hitler and Mussolini make a big gesture of stepping in and doing it for him. Last February conciliatory Dragisha Cvetkovitch replaced unpopular Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch and promptly began to negotiate with old Dr. Matchek for the settlement of the Croat-Serb dispute. Last week Serbs and Croats celebrated what they considered the resolution of the Croat problem...
...breasts over the sudden death of 27-year-old King Ghazi I. Iraq's council of ministers announced that the next King would be Ghazi's three-year-old baby boy, Feisal II. For 14 years, until Feisal comes of age, Iraq will be ruled by a regent chosen from among royal uncles and cousins, who may easily fall prey to Iraq's Anglophobe troublemakers. How successful the British may be in educating Feisal to love England remains to be seen, but they will certainly try not to make the mistake they made in educating his father...
That Hitler had the card was hinted last week when the Hungarian Foreign Minister was one of the small and distinguished party-including the Japanese and Italian Ambassadors-which shared Herr Hitler's triumphant arrival in Berlin (see col.3). Nicholas Horthy, Hungary's Regent, was scheduled to meet Fuhrer Hitler soon to discuss "common problems," and speculators wondered whether His Serene Highness might not find it expedient to deliver his country into the trust of Adolf Hitler, just as President Emil Hacha of Czechoslovakia did last week...
...last fortnight Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of University of California, received a telephone call from his friend Mortimer Fleishhacker, a regent of the university and board chairman of the potent Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. He had heard, said Fleishhacker, that an unnamed bank had offered Dr. Sproul a job. "Will you take the presidency of Anglo California," asked Mr. Fleishhacker, "at $50,000 a year...