Word: ruler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that its purpose was to finance a putsch designed to set a king upon the vacant throne of Hungary. Count Bethlen himself referred to the counterfeiters in Parliament as "misguided patriots." Regent Horthy refused to refer to them at all-a most significant gesture on the part of a "ruler" who should nominally have been the first to condemn such acts. The identity of the individual in whose favor the putsch was to have been launched remained obscure. Regent Horthy and Count Bethlen both appear to be badly tarred with the counterfeiters' brush; but the Regent is a Fascist...
Proud and smiling also will be Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick, who is not only ruler of the ancient city of Philadelphia but also Director of Philadelphia's SesquiCentennial International Exposition. Already he is exclaiming...
After asserting that this body "enjoys powers which no political ruler in the civilized world would dream of claiming," Mr. Shaw proceeded to wax indignant against the Council for blacklisting not only osteopaths but "any physician who dares to assist an osteopath as his anesthetist...
Accompanied by her third son and by numerous retainers, the Begum of Bhopal,f sole feminine ruler of an Indian state, interviewed British statesmen on the question of her successor...
...cavalcade clattered into Cetinje, massed crowds lined the streets. Would they accept their new ruler, or would a shot, a knife, a bomb express the hatred of unwilling subjects for their lord? It was a ticklish moment. Steel-nerved, the smiling royalties awaited what was to come. Then suddenly their people knelt and poured forth the ancient greeting of Montenegrin subjects to a Montenegrin King: "Lo, thou art our heavenly sun, our wish, our happiness and our sharp sword...