Word: regente
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...Regent's Park flat, Mrs. Edith Eleanor Humphries, 48, widow, was found dying of a beating about the head...
...long wanted a price-fixing law to hold them down. But the other two parties in Iceland's Coalition Cabinet have refused to consent to a measure which they said meant "State Socialism." So Premier Jónasson last week presented his Government's resignation to Regent Sveinn Björnsson, let others try to form a Cabinet that would tackle Iceland's problem...
Last week when his 18th birthday came, Peter was King already, had been since March when his regent uncle Prince Paul abdicated rather than fight the Nazis. There was no birthday fete in German-held Belgrade. Instead, exiled King Peter, a slim soft-spoken boy whose dearest wish is an R.A.F. commission, celebrated quietly in England, told reporters he thought the time was ripe for a British invasion of Italy...
...Sept. 7, 1822, at Ypiranga near Sao Paulo, Brazil's Prince Regent Pedro received a batch of dispatches from Portugal telling of oppressive measures planned for the colony. Then & there Prince Pedro uttered what Brazilians now call the Grito de Ypiranga: "Independence or death!" He revolted against his father the Emperor, declared Brazil independent, became its first monarch, Dom Pedro I. Although Brazil later overthrew his son, Dom Pedro II, and became a republic, Brazilians this week celebrated the 119th anniversary of their independence with as little animosity toward Portugal as U.S. citizens now feel toward Great Britain...
...King of Kings, Shadow of the Almighty, Vice Regent of God and Center of the Universe, is a tough, foxy old man, better known as Reza Shah Pahlavi. Ever since his Government signed a trade agreement with Adolf Hitler's in April last year Germans have poured into Iran. Last week Britain and Russia turned heat on the Shah to start them pouring out. By week's end a token trickle of some 60 out of an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 had dribbled over the Turkish border...