Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actively until the Senate had ratified the Geneva Convention which made the U. S. a member of the International Red Cross. This strong-willed little New England spinster had done relief work through the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. For 23 years she was the energetic, arbitrary ruler of the American Red Cross. In 1904 a minority of its members attacked her dictatorship, forced an investigation of her poor business management, caused her, amid bitter recriminations, to resign. Last week President Hoover, his extremely distant Swiss relative, President Max Huber of the International Red Cross, Chief Justice Hughes...
...peace. Then in Italy one pictures his holiness retiring into the Vatican forever before the victorious forces of the temporal lord. Now again in Italy again the head of the greatest Christian church is opposed by the state, this time in the person of the most powerful ruler that Italy ever...
...Speaker," said Will Thorne. British Laborite Member of Parliament, last week, "I wish to ask whether the former ruler of Spain should not be referred to as ex-King Alfonso, or Mr. Bourbon in these debates...
...morning, hurried back to his quarters to receive the President at n, then spent the afternoon in a dentist's office. After a state dinner at the White House that evening, during which Master Untiedt was permitted to peep through the door, the Siamese ruler left for Baltimore to have a cataract on his eye looked after...
...Suspending the Exercise.' As soon as the Hendaye Statement became general news, the Republican Government was forced to publish the paper that Alfonso had signed before he left the palace. By no means an abdication, it was as dignified a statement as any ruler practically kicked from his throne could make...