Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them, Princess Dayang Dayang,* began to quarrel with Hadji Butu, the late Sultan's grand vizier, over who was to succeed Kiram II. Dayang Dayang won the first round. Since the Sultan's corpse was rapidly putrefying and could not be buried until a new ruler had been chosen, she secured the appointment of her husband Datu Umbra as Sultan pro tern. Meantime, datus (princes) of the Sulu islands had been advised by Grand Vizier Hadji Butu, ablest and best educated of the Moro patriarchs, to enthrone Datu Rajamuda, only surviving brother of the late Sultan...
...near future, with $13,000,000 investments and a ninety-year option on the Nicaragua canal route at stake, the delicate problem of recognition becomes of paramount interest, particularly since under the Central American treaty of peace and amity of 1923 we are unable to recognize a ruler who comes to power by a coup d'etat...
...only stating a prerequisite for academic freedom, but when he says that the professors must remain aloof oracles, he is hoping for a neutrality and aloofness which can never exist. The centers of learning should still send forth professors to "walk with kings." It is only when an incompetent ruler selects the most miserable of the breed that the universities are dragged down into the mud alongside the government...
...whole they disapprove of him. Heiden: "Only the ruin of all made him ruler over all." Olden: "He is a man who has remained in the child-stage, in the barbaric state of the nursery...
...were further south enjoying the fun in Addis Ababa. Up to his tent rode a bedraggled, bearded native on muleback carrying a twisted twig and a scrap of white cloth. Stiffly dismounting, the blackamoor bowed low to the ground in token of submission. It was Ras Seyoum, onetime ruler of Tigre Province, the "Black Fox of Ethiopia." ablest of the north Ethiopian chieftains. For six months he had held Italy's armies at bay. Alone he had arrived to surrender...