Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rubber Administrator William Jeffers picked up his ruler to rap the nation's knuckles: "There is a good deal of organized opposition in various quarters-the funds for which are being furnished by people who should know better-protesting the application of gas rationing. I don't question their motive. They just don't understand. The period from now until we can start to allocate substantial quantities of synthetic rubber for civilian use, which will be many months, must be bridged by saving rubber through gasoline rationing. The alternative is a possible collapse of transportation which would...
High on a red hill above the sunburned plains of Equatorial Africa, in the hereditary palace surrounded by flame trees, Mutesa II, 35th directly descended Kabaka (ruler) of Buganda, one of Uganda's three provinces, last week ascended the old stool which serves as throne for the Kingdom...
Promptly on his 18th birthday, Mutesa II put on his eight-inch-high gold crown, newly rushed from London, encrusted with sapphires, fire opals and carbuncle garnets, fronted with the tall, traditional white ostrich plume. This made him ruler, under a British "agreement of non-interference," of a cotton-growing territory roughly the size of Ireland...
...Love's Lovely Counterfeit Author Cain is in the groove again. Principal character is broad-shouldered Ben Grace, chauffeur to Sol Caspar, racketeer ruler of Lake City...
...rays of hope they have seen in India. He banned child marriage, sponsored educational reform. His palace had air conditioning, western plumbing, a telephone exchange. His hunting parties were lavish and invariably successful (two crack native shots always fired at a tiger when a guest did). Ablest ruler of his line, Junior nevertheless forgot that ever since the British East India Co. set up the princely states * there has been an unwritten law that princes must be seen and not heard...