Word: regente
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...Montenegro is Prince Michael Petrovitch, nephew of Italy's Queen Elena, grandson of Montenegro's last ruler, King Nicholas. The 36-year-old princeling, who has lived most of his life in exile in France, was recently chosen by the Axis as Montenegro's new Regent...
Last week, in a packed hall in the Capitol, the Board of Regents held a hearing. The Governor, himself a regent, was there, munching his lunch and prompting his fellow board members. Regent James S. Peters waved a copy of Brown America, a book by the Rosenwald Fund's President Edwin Rogers Embree, charged it preached Negro-white equality. Cried he: "Negroes will ride in the same railroad cars, sit in the same schools, go to the same lavatories as white...
...Regent Peters added that Dean Cocking had helped spend Rosenwald Funds in Georgia (the State University system got $325,000 of Rosenwald money in the last five years), therefore was guilty of disseminating Embree ideas...
...stolid statesmen of Reykjavik, measured and dignified in all things, erected their new order with utmost constitutional correctness. Until a republic should be established, able, revered Svein Bjornsson, Icelandic envoy to Copenhagen, was named regent. There was no need to create a new diplomatic service: Iceland had already planted a set of stalwart Vikings in world capitals after the Nazis captured Denmark last year. As for protocol, Premier Hermann Jonasson had always got along with a staff of a secretary and a doorkeeper, and still could...
...days before Germany's Balkan campaign, a pro-German Arab nationalist, Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani, overthrew five-year-old Monarch Feisal II's pro-British Regent. Because of the threat implicit in this coup, the British sent 1,200 troops to Basra, Iraq's main port, at the head of the Persian Gulf. El-Gailani acquiesced in the landing and publicly subscribed to the 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty of Alliance which justified it ("The aid of . . . Iraq in the event of war or the imminent menace of war will consist in . . . use of railways, rivers, ports...