Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Ford, who has been chairman of the Department of Romance Languages since 1911, was decorated by the Rumanian sovereign because of his interest and activity in diffusing knowledge of the language and literature of that country. He is already a Knight of the Legion of Honor of France and an Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy...
...Government which accepts the usual international conventions.* President Roosevelt's overture to Moscow last week was regarded in Europe as a triumph for Russia: recognition at last. For President Roosevelt it was two or three triumphs: 1) Never before had the Soviets agreed to discuss differences with a sovereign power before their own sovereignty was recognized. 2 ) Upon excited Europe and the Far East (though Japan loudly professed to see in it nothing admonitory) the drawing together of Russia and the U. S. must have a quieting effect. 3) The quieting effect upon U. S.-domestic excitements was instant...
...Bavaradej. He has captured the Royal Airdrome and is marching on Bangkok." "What? Prince Bavaradej!" cried King Prajadhipok. "Inform the populace at once of my deep regret that a member of the Royal Family should be leading a revolt against the Government." Not the cynical wisecrack of a dissolute sovereign, this pronouncement reflected King Prajadhipok's knowledge that his people regard him as their deliverer from the rest of the Royal Family, a horde of princes entrenched in hundreds of offices, whose constant meddling jeopardized the business of the State. The princes were swept out of their sinecures...
...Wants But Little. Among Haverford alumni: ''Tune Detective'' Sigmund Spaeth; Authors Christopher Morley and Logan Pearsall Smith; oldtime Basso David Bispham; Artist Maxtield Parrish; onetime Vice President Walter Morris Hart of the University of California; Commissioner of Education Jose Padin of Puerto Rico: President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania (Haverford ex-'93); Professor Henry Joel Cadbury of Bryn Mawr and Dr. Cecil Kent Drinker of Harvard Medical School. The last two and Author Morley were given honorary Litt. D. degrees at last week's celebration...
Chancellor Dollfuss approached the British and French Legations, asked them to withdraw the note. They refused. Promptly he summoned Parliament to extraordinary session, invited the foreign Press, read the entire secret ultimatum, and slapped it down on the rostrum in front of him with the statement that Austria, a sovereign nation, does not answer such notes at all. Four months later Engelbert Dollfuss was in Britain, a darling of the British Press & public during the World Economic Conference. But in the meantime the world had awakened to the folly and menace of Hitlerism. Today no one can pluck the capercailzie...