Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Excerpt from the "bless" prayer: "O Lord, our heavenly Father, the high and mighty Ruler of the universe, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; Most heartily we beseech thee, with thy favor to behold and bless thy servant THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and all others in authority...
Coups d'état are familiar features of the Iraqi political landscape. Sportive, fast-driving, ham Radioperator King Ghazi I survived three. Since 1939 when Ghazi wrapped roadster and self around an electric-light pole, Iraq's ruler has been his son, King Feisal II, a sloe-eyed moppet of five. Regent has been Faisal's Anglophile uncle, weak-chinned Prince Abdul Illah. In 1940, Prince Abdul Illah quashed one would-be Army coup by seizing the Iraqi telephone service and rusticating two uppity generals...
...task as big as the U. S. itself. The job is enormous to the point of incomprehensibility. The U. S. press, trying to tell the nation about the defense program, finds itself measuring Mt. Everest with a schoolboy's ruler. There are scarcely words big enough to say what is happening to the country...
CARIO, FRIDAY-Haile Selassie, ruler of Ethiopia, who was ousted by the Italian conquest, entered his country Jan. 15 and is leading a revolt against the Italians with British cooperation, it was announced officially early today...
...terrible-tempered ruler, Secretary Harold L. Ickes, bolts about switching off lights to save electricity. The gesture is noble in purpose, and-to those who appreciate the endless, grab-bag complexity of Interior's duties-understandable. Interior sells electricity, protects the Indians, manages forests, preserves historic buildings, sets minimum soft-coal prices, interferes in the government of Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, rules Western cattle ranges, settles irrigated areas in semi-arid regions, watches over wild life and fish. All these sprawling activities are linked by a central theme: conservation of natural resources...