Word: reign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This axing abruptly ended Dr. Soong's nine-year reign as head of one of the world's great financial organizations. Chinese murmured that more was to follow: Harvard-educated T. V. seemed to be on a greased political chute, might even lose his position as Foreign Minister. Political observers recalled that among the Foreign Ministers at the Cairo Conference, T. V. was conspicuously absent...
...room to spread his tentacles through the state even under an unfriendly governor. Revision won by 136,000 votes. Charles Edison, who entered New Jersey politics as an amateur, left the state with an achievement no professional could match: he had clipped Boss Hague's powers after a reign of 26 years...
Monsignor Andrea's words were calm, dignified, nonrevolutionary. But they ranged a distinguished churchman with students, professors, workers and other civilians in a mounting popular protest against a mounting rightist dictatorship. "To dominate slaves," exhorted the Bishop, "is doubly ignoble; to reign over the free is doubly glorious! Your Excellency, Señor Presidente: let your authority be the guaranty of our liberty...
Behind the grey walls of Sofia's grey palace, death came suddenly to Boris III, King and Dictator of Bulgaria. His 25-year reign had begun in war and chaos. It closed in war and chaos...
...singer, Lillian Russell might have cut a minor swath at the Metropolitan. Trained in opera from infancy, she claimed to be able to negotiate high Cs eight times a performance, seven performances a week. But when Nellie Melba told Lillian to stick to the music halls, where her reign was absolute, she took the advice...