Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These articles asserted that ratification of the treaty by Panama would be equivalent to the surrender of her sovereign rights, and they pointed out that Panama, as a member of the League of Nations, would be compelled to file the instrument at Geneva and that the League would then "abrogate...
...codicil added to the original will, Prince Carol is cut off from the inheritance of any real estate but is bequeathed some 6,600,000 lei in cash ($400,000). Queen Marie of Jugoslavia cannot, as a foreign sovereign, own Rumanian real estate, and therefore was willed a legacy in cash and securities. The Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania will receive an income and the use of several palaces during life;" but the residual bulk of the king's fortune and estates was willed chiefly to King Michael? ($30,000,000), Princess Ileana and Prince Nicholas...
Many citizens of the free and independent Republic of Bolivia were somewhat downcast last week by what might seem a trivial cause. Bolivia is almost twice as large in area as Texas and has about the population of Chicago; but last week this sovereign state was troubled by the destruction of its entire merchant marine. The destruction was trivial in its way, because the Bolivian merchant marine consisted of a single ship, the Presidente Saavedra, named for onetime (1921-26) President Dr. Bautista Saavedra* of Bolivia. In the spacious harbor of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the one-ship fleet of Bolivia...
...reputedly ordered conveyed to Conservative Premier Stanley Baldwin last week a very strong though private intimation that His Majesty disapproved the Cabinet's sensational proposal to "reform" the House of Lords (TIME, July 4). The reform would limit the number of peers, and thus, by implication, abolish the sovereign's present prerogative to create additional peers at pleasure. Last week not only the King but a very large number of the younger Conservative M. P.'s made known their opposition to the proposed bill which would vastly increase the power of the House of Lords...
While the train waited, King Ferdinand took Premier General Alexander Averescu by the arm and publicly besought him to do everything which would make possible the formation of a "National Coalition Cabinet" strong enough to bulwark Rumania in the event of the sovereign's sudden death. Since the first thing which Premier Averescu would have to do to bring this about would be to resign, his swart face darkened, and some reporters claimed that he did not reply to the King's appeal...