Word: regente
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None of the 26 committeemen may serve more than three successive years. Baron Edouard de Rothschild for example, a Bank of France regent for a generation, may be re-elected after his next three years are up only by taking a year's holiday. Debate in the Chamber was remarkably brief. Opponents of the reform bill held up their hands in holy horror at what they called the growth of "Etatisme"-government-in-business, State Socialism, etc. etc. Cried a conservative Deputy...
...dazzled Austrians, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Bulgars and Hungarians, through whose central banks Dr. Schacht had swept like a meteor last week, deigning to dine with premiers, having audience with King George of Greece, Tsar Boris of Bulgaria and accepting the Hungarian Cross of Merit, First Class, from the fingers of Regent Horthy, correspondents gleaned Schacht facts...
...Europe for Benito Mussolini to have his best soldier 2,000 miles away. At 10 o'clock on the morning of his departure Marshal Badoglio welcomed to Addis Ababa his old friend and colleague Marshal Rudolfo Graziani, handed over to him the authority to rule Ethiopia as "Regent." Fascist wiseacres wagered last week that Marshal Badoglio will not return to Ethiopia for months, that Marshal Graziani will soon succeed him as Viceroy...
...well as the King's "rights" on fish taken from his rivers, coal from his Welsh mines. To him belong London's New Gallery and His Majesty's Theatres, Holborn and Criterion restaurants, Carlton Hotel, the southern side of Piccadilly Circus and both sides of Regent Street, pieces of Kennington slums, Finchley, Hampstead, Dalston and swank Carlton House Terrace...
...films linked together and called The Immortal Swan. Producer was her husband, Victor Dandré, who was releasing the pictures for the first time to raise funds for a Pavlova Memorial Fountain to be executed by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles on a site already approved in London's Regent Park...