Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Commonwealth, at Canberra, this fourth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and thirty, and in the twentieth year of His Majesty's reign...
...Backing up Scot MacDonald (282 to 201) in his signing of the London Naval Treaty, the House defeated a Conservative motion to "investigate," urged by Winston Churchill who shouted: "Never since the reign of Charles II has this country been so defenseless...
...Italian workers! If anybody should tell you that elsewhere, beyond our frontiers, there is a reign of abundance, he would be a liar, and knowingly a liar...
...reign of greatest popularity of the unicorn came during the Middle Ages. At this time a favorite pastime of Italian politicians was serving lethal wine to unwary rivals. During this era an office seeker's only hope of becoming the incumbent was to poison his rivals or to fortify himself with unicorn's horn powder...
Declared Oswald F. Schuette, executive secretary of Radio Protective Association (composed of independents) : ". . . The end of the reign of terror ... !" Said Bertram James Grigsby, of Grigsby-Grunow Co. (Majestic Radio): "Extremely gratified. . . ." Press headlines proclaimed: ADMINISTRATION STARTS TRUST-BUSTING CAMPAIGN! But prompt was Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell to deny that there was "occasion for any such campaign." Indeed, the Government's petition in the Radio suit stated: "The defendants . have earnestly contended that they are doing nothing more than . . . authorized...