Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willebrandt's politocsin, but able to knock the Democratic campaign among Lutherans to Smithereens is the National Lutheran Editors' Association, whose media reach two million readers. Apropos of the campaign the editors voted to tell their readers that the Catholic Church requires of its members allegiance to a "foreign sovereign." (TIME, Sept...
...course hard-boiled men in barracks do rollick and bellow, especially at the Sovereign and the Empire they love. But Victoria, no Hard-Boiled Queen, missed the too-blunt point and was irrevocably insulted...
...brought out of the whispering gallery and into the amplifiers the oldtime subject of Nominee Smith's Roman Catholicism. While not presuming to campaign openly for Hoover, the Lutheran editors voted to tell their readers that the Roman Catholic Church requires of its members allegiance to a "foreign sovereign . . . who has worldwide political interests of his own which may severely clash with the best interests of our country...
Last week the Sovereign of Liechtenstein, Johann Marie François Placide, Prince de Liechtenstein, Duc de Trappau et de Jägerndorf, lord of vast estates in Austria and Czechoslovakia, and owner of the famed Art Gallery in Vienna which bears his name, decided that it was time for him to take a shrewd step in respect to the inheritance taxes of Austria and Czechoslovakia, for the Prince is now aged four score and eight...
...heir apparent was, last week, the Sovereign's cousin Alfred Aloyse, but he too will soon be dead and his estate the prey of tax gatherers. Therefore the succession to the Throne of Liechtenstein was allotted, last week, to fall upon Prince Alfred Aloyse's 18-year-old grandson, Prince Franz Joseph Marie Aloyse Alfred Charles Jean Henri Michel Georges Ignace Benoit Gerard Majella de Liechtenstein. Thus only one, not two sets of inheritance taxes, will have to be paid before young Prince Franz ascends his minute Throne...