Word: regente
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Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, President of the Provo Commercial and Savings Bank, director of Zion's cooperative Mercantile Co., director of the Deseret National Bank, director of the Deseret Savings Bank, member of the World War Foreign Debt Commission, president of the Electric Co. (of Provo, Utah), regent of the Smithsonian Institution, president of the Smoot Investment Co., Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is a man of substance and consistency. Last week, as he arrived in Florida to see Mr. Hoover, he declared for "general...
...succeeded the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch in 1903, he had no expectation of reaching the throne ahead of his elder brother Crown Prince George. However, a distressing malady forced Prince George to renounce his right of succession in 1909, and a similar necessity obliged King Peter to appoint Prince Alexander regent on June...
Possibly the young regent did not know that his prime minister, the venerable and scrupulous Nikolai Pashitch, was even then conniving at the prelude to the World War: the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo. The guilt of Pashitch has been affirmed by Ljuba Jovanovitch, the Minister of Education...
When Austria threatened Serbia (now part of Jugoslavia) on account of the assassination, young Regent Alexander sought and received the aid of Tsar Nicholas II, at whose father's court he had been a page. As the Great Powers mobilized (for their various and several reasons), and as the World War burst upon Europe, the wisdom of M. Pashitch's course was seriously in doubt. He lived to see it supremely vindicated, from the Serbian standpoint; for the peace treaties gave to Serbia additional territories of 59,400 square miles, including huge slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria...
...historians have held that "Serbia was the only nation which really profited by the War." In 1918 the Serbian throne became that of Jugoslavia, "a little empire"; and on Aug. 16, 1921 Prince Regent Alexander became His Majesty Alexander I, King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Jugoslavs...