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...father asked Parliament to enact a Regency Bill under which, in case of "the demise of the Crown," the next member of the Royal Family in line for the Throne, "excluding minors" (i.e., excepting Princess Elizabeth, 10, and her sister Princess Margaret Rose, 6), should automatically become the Regent. This would mean that the death of King George would make his brother the Duke of Gloucester the sole Regent. This was a great surprise, for it had been expected that strong-minded Queen Elizabeth and strong-minded Queen Mother Mary would sit with the Duke of Gloucester and possibly also...
...Russian revolution by a committee of soldiers and peasants. It has happened here." As twilight of the hearing's second day descended over the campus. Glenn Frank had only a few more hours as Wisconsin's president. After recessing for a late dinner, the 15 regents returned at 9:25 p. m. to act on Regent Gates's resolution to remove Glenn Frank and appoint Dean George C. Sellery as temporary president...
During the reign of her first son, sickly Frangois II, she waited and watched; at his death she declared herself Regent for her second surviving son, 10-year-old Charles IX. Now she found that her family affairs were the parlous state of the nation. Bled nearly white by protracted wars, griped by religious dissension, rumbling with revolt, France was apparently tottering toward dissolution. "With all its normal resources mortgaged [the government] was reduced to a point at which it functioned for the sole benefit of the international financiers...
...credit of President Frank is the progress which the University has made since 1925. Neither the analytical casuistry of Regent Gates nor the rhetorical thunderbolts of Regent Wilkie can disguise this fact. True, the most notable of Frank's attempted reforms, the Experimental College, failed to achieve the success originally expected. But a man should not be pilloried for the failure of an experiment, especially when the University profited by the lessons learned. The attempts of lay Regents to prove that the University has slipped do not ring true when confronted by the unanimous contrary opinion of competent educators...
...publicity to the University. But Frank has raised the University's prestige more than factional disputes have impaired it. The current hearings debunk Frank's record no more convincingly than the initial fulminations of the Governor's appointees. Their unseemly haste and petty discourtesies to Dr. Frank indicate the Regent's determination to railroad the President with but scant reflection. The Governor has already reflected for them...