Word: regents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SUCCESSION. We have provisions that the Empress will be regent until the Crown Prince [Reza, 13] comes of age when he is 20. She will rule with the help of a council. That is voted, accepted. It is legal. But I also have my political will [which has been] written, signed and sent to the people [in order to] try to keep what permitted us to be what we are-that is, to continue along our present course until the country is really developed and illiteracy does not exist any more...
Tregaskis achieves a myopic happy ending. When Kamehameha died, he left his dynasty seemingly secure in the hands of a crown prince with the Lady Kaahumanu as regent. Even a short-ranged epilogue would have shown the dynasty and the island's culture disintegrating under the white man's burden of greed and commerce. ∎Laurence I. Barrett
...calling himself General Field Marshal Cinque (which he pronounced sin-cue). He said that Hearst, editor of the San Francisco Examiner and executive-committee chairman of the news-paper-and-magazine chain founded by his father, was "the corporate chairman of a fascist media empire." Furthermore, Mrs. Hearst, a regent of the University of California, had helped invest university funds, he said, "in corporations that have interest and do gain profit from robbery, oppression and genocide." As usual, the S.L.A. statement was filled with far-left jargon and was accompanied by the group's standard demand that its propaganda...
ROBIN HOOD is a pleasant enough animated holiday party from the Disney studios. As usual, the villains take the day. Prince John, the regent, is a craven brat, a lion whose crown keeps falling down over his floppy ears and who, in times of stress, sucks his thumb and whimpers for his mother. His consort, Sir Hiss, is a snake in charge of the royal treasury and of soothing the prince...
...Japanese have bought eleven hotels that account for 11% of Hawaii's 36,000 rooms, and they have two other hotels under construction. Among the Japanese-owned hotels: the Hawaiian Regent, the Surfsider and the Imperial Hawaiian. They have bought two Honolulu golf courses and some 3,000 acres of resort development land on the big island of Hawaii...