Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italians have founded the Action Committee for the Universality of Rome. Their grandiose gospel amounts to identifying 20th Century Fascism prophetically with the ancient Pax Romano, and its glories. Frankly pleased, Orator Mussolini now often indulges in verbal orgies about the Universality of Rome, but as a practical, pragmatic ruler Premier Mus solini knows exactly where the U. of R. stops today, namely, at Italy's frontiers. With characteristic prudence, II Duce did not permit his Fascist Party to be represented in Montreux, Switzerland last week at the first World Conference of Pax Romanizers. President of the Action Committee...
...only of Nazi Germany did ebullient Miss Steele have things to reveal. Wrote she to friends in Texas: "A Princess Bagnatiov - former ruler of Georgia [Russia] - called on me and gave me the lowdown on what is developing in Japan and Russia. Right now Japan has surrounded Russia and will slowly choke her to death by pressing in from all sides. She is going to give me valuable information about the situation...
Vienna, Wednesday, Oct. 31--Balkan capitals seethed today with rumors of a plot against the life of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria but whether an attempt on the life of the Bulgar ruler really was made, newspaper correspondents, for the time, were unable to learn...
Twenty-two trucks rumbled after the royal mourners with 15,000 wreaths. Of these 100 were said to be from "the foreign rulers and States." Ruler Roosevelt, the better to honor King Alexander, not only sent a wreath but promoted U. S. Minister Charles S. Wilson to the rank of Ambassador for just long enough to attend the funeral...
...Prayer jor the Living the Rev. J. G. ("Tired Tim") Petrie, Headmaster of St. Kentigern's School, Pitgoorlie Bay, Scotland, is the easygoing, outwardly conventional, inwardly puzzled ruler of a domain. The Rev. Charles ("Wearie Willie") Murray, devout, pious, gentle, with definite leanings toward Rome, is constantly baffled by the problems confronting a pedagog in the English public school. While masters worry over problems of faith and dogma, of pedagogy and discipline, of finances and families, the boys concern themselves with cricket, standing, good form, smut and tormenting "Wearie Willie." Young Middleton falls in love with "Tired...