Word: regente
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...Adopted resolution appointing Dwight W. Morrow regent of the Smithsonian Institution...
Japanese Intervention. From Tokyo a cold decisive message clicked out over the cables: "By order of General M. Kawai, Chief of the Japanese General Staff, and with the consent of the Prince Regent of Japan and Premier Kato, 3,500 Japanese troops have been despatched to Mukden, [capital of the Chinese provinces of Manchuria]. This action is taken at the request of the consuls of the Great Powers at Mukden, who have asked protection for their nationals from the armies of the Chinese military leaders, Chang Tso-lin and Kiio Sung-lien, now attempting to engage each other...
...proposed and sanctioned by 80 votes against 5 to depose Sultan Ahmad Shah from the throne of Persia and cancel forever the dynasty of Kajars. Meanwhile Reza Khan Pahlavi, the Prime Minister and Commander in Chief of all Persia's force, will act as a regent till a senate be formed and decide the form of government, i. e., whether a Republic or as before. I shall let you hear more details of affairs in future...
...inordinate zeal for pumping, three years later, sounded the death knell for the volunteer firemen. At one of the company's drills, either out of malice, or because the chief of the company was not entirely certain of his bearings, the room of the College Regent was chosen as the scene of the "fire". Not until this "fire" had been thoroughly extinguished by gallons of water directed through an open window did the furious pumpers desist, and only when the window was closed by the saturated occupant of the room, was the drill declared over...
...same time that the students of Glasgow University were pelting one another with aged eggs and older fish in an attempt to choose a Regent, the police were called into the classrooms of the Sorbonne to quell a riot started by candidates for degrees who had failed in the written examinations. To their not unbiased minds the examinations were quite impossible. And to the not unbiased mind of the dean they, themselves, were quite impossible. Their "incredible ignorance" shocked the dean; for among them was one who credited Chateaubriand with "Emile" and "The Social Contract". Thereupon the dean...