Word: regente
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...should his successor possess ability and an understanding of human nature, but his post should become as important in practice as it is in theory. First, such an individual should organize the Yard Police on standards of efficiency and decency. Secondly, he should take over the duties of the Regent. Thirdly, he should have a seat on the Administrative Board. In other words, he should be a well-paid assistant to Mr. Hanford, who can intelligently aid the administration of undergraduate disciplinary policies and prevent the entanglement of Harvard in unsavory scandals...
...However, as soon as George II felt himself to be really King and had $200,000 in his pocket, he emphatically challenged General Kondylis' plans, proposed instead that he sail around Italy, land at the Yugoslav port of Split and visit, en route to Athens, his cousin, the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul. Nervously the British Foreign Office hinted to George II that there was no need to heighten the British-Italian tension by making an issue of visiting a country where his parents' bodies lie. Dictator Kondylis had naturally assumed that his King would communicate with Greece...
...original Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. bogged down in 1912, and to pull it out Otto Herbert Falk, militia general and Marquette University regent, was named receiver. In time Receiver Falk became President Falk, then (1932) Chairman Falk, still sits at the head of the directors' table at a salary of $36,000 per year. He saw Spanish War service in Cuba and Puerto Rico. He omits pomp & ceremony, answers the telephone himself, keeps no one waiting, replied to a newsman's request for an appointment, with a wire reading, "Will be in my office from ten to four...
...Premier Tsaldaris on his way to work. When the officers left the Premier, they had his resignation. General Kondylis quietly filled the streets of Athens with soldiers, declared nation-wide martial law and a state of siege. Then he personally proclaimed that Greece was a monarchy and he its Regent...
...protege and frequent houseguest of Britain's King-Emperor George V, seemed especially dubious of the invitation of General Kondylis, who is an open admirer of Benito Mussolini. In London the King's aide told newshawks that everything was still uncertain and in Athens Regent Kondylis replied that, if George refused to return, he would find another King...