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Word: regents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guest this time was just about the toughest boss-man in Eastern Europe, His Serene Highness astute old Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Regent of the kingless Kingdom of Hungary. If & when Hitler decides to invade Czechoslovakia, Admiral Horthy as an awestruck friend can play the same part that Mussolini played when Hitler invaded Austria. If he does, the $750,000 Hitler expended last week on the Admiral's entertainment will be well spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Impressing Visitors | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

This was flattery. What followed was intended to impress Hungary's dictator. In a grand review 117 ships of the German Navy sailed past the Führer and the Regent. Admiral Horthy was then permitted to inspect the brand new, Nazi-rebuilt defenses of the island of Helgoland, in the North Sea, once dismantled under the Treaty of Versailles, now again a potent naval base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Impressing Visitors | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...ring and No. 3 Nazi Goebbels. The colossal German military display which followed was even bigger than that staged last year for Premier Mussolini. In the Berlin suburb of Charlottenburg 1,100 armored cars and tanks, 318 motorcycles, 300 heavy guns, 750 cavalrymen, 61,000 infantrymen passed before Regent Horthy in just over two hours' time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Impressing Visitors | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...foreign military attachés and the Regent suddenly spied in the hurrying military parade four specimens of a completely new heavy mobile gun. Each gun appeared to have a crew of about 40 and sped past in five sections, each rolling on rubber tires and pulled by a heavy tractor. First section, the gun carriage; second, the gun cradle; third, the immense recoil and recuperator gear; fourth, incidental equipment of the gun; and fifth, the gun barrel which appeared to be some 45 feet long with a calibre of ten inches. A retired naval officer of a Great Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Impressing Visitors | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...Party largely because it was not pacifist enough for him, left London this week on another whirlwind European tour, this time of 17 days. Two years ago he talked with President Roosevelt, last year with Dictators Mussolini and Hitler; this time Mr. Lansbury has been promised audiences by Hungarian Regent Admiral Horthy, Bulgarian Tsar Boris, Rumanian King Carol, Yugoslav Regent Prince Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Supermen | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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