Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Until 1924 Buddhists in Tibet, Mongolia & China looked up to two Lamas or Living Buddhas: the Panchen Lama or spiritual head of Buddhism, and the Dalai Lama or temporal ruler. Squabbling between these two holy men (fostered, said some observers, by British agents who found the Dalai Lama much more tractable) caused the Panchen Lama to flee from his headquarters in Tibet to China where he travels about, oblivious to and unharmed by all civil wars...
...Elected- J. Finley Wilson; to be Grand Exalted Ruler of the Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks (colored); by acclamation; at an uproarious annual convention in Philadelphia. Exalted Ruler Wilson recommended that the grand lodge money be kept in a vault so that the principal may be safe though the interest is lost...
...Only 65 sq. mi. in area, Liechtenstein is one of Europe's tiniest independent states. It is situated between Switzerland and Austria, has a population of 11,500, no army. Present ruler of Liechtenstein is Prince Franz, 77. Two years ago Prince Franz married Frau Elsa von Eross, née Baroness Guttman of Vienna. He had married her secretly in 1921 in Salzburg, Austria. Because she was a commoner he could not make public the marriage. She is wealthy, of Jewish descent...
...trying to educate the Gypsies in America-stop their child marriages and keep them from telling fortunes." said King Stephen III of the Gypsy House of Kaslov, "ruler" of 10,000 people scattered about the U. S. He was pleading for leniency in the case of his son, Prince Willie, 17, husband of the Princess Roslo,* before a Newark court where the Prince had been arraigned for auto-stealing after a long, prodigal wandering away from his home. After promising to put a guard over Willie, King Stephen obtained his parole. Jan Felix Piccard, twin brother of Stratospherist Prof. Auguste...
...charges are proud and pleased when he kisses them for winning a race, as last week he kissed Vic Williams. In such gestures as this? and the circumstance that young Runner Wykoff, as a reward for winning races, will ride a float in Los Angeles next week as ruler of a pre-Olympic pageant?are implied the true reason for Californian athletic supremacy?Enthusiasm...