Word: sovereign
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This week the 40th of this long line of monarchs also made history. He set out to visit: 1) a Dominion in which no British Sovereign had ever set foot; 2) a hemisphere never penetrated in person by any ruling King of Great Britain; 3) the nation which but for the stupidity of his great -great -great -Grandfather George, would today be the richest dominion of his Empire...
...death of a man who had influenced U. S. life for 17 years, a man to whom Franklin Roosevelt had lately seemed to be turning as an ally in his stand for democracy against dictatorship (TIME, Jan. 9). Congress, too, paid its respects to that man as a temporal sovereign. For the first time since 1871 Congress adjourned to honor the death of a Pope...
...Damiano Achille Ratti, His Holiness Pope Pius XI, 81, 261st Pope, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Pri mate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, absolute sovereign of Vatican City, spiritual sovereign of 331,500,000 Roman Catholics; of cardiac asthma and kidney disturbances; in Vatican City...
...They bring chaos and disunity into sovereign nations and then seize and dismember them. They send their agents to spy upon us. They organize Bunds to spread their vicious doctrines in strident contempt for our Democracy and its institutions...
...Japan has acted like a sovereign in China, laying down new law on her own authority only. "This Government does not admit . . . that there is need or warrant for any one power to take upon itself to prescribe what shall be the terms and conditions of a 'new order' in areas not under its sovereignty and to constitute itself the repository of authority and the agent of destiny in regard thereto...