Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prudent Oriental, Feisal habitually employed a Court Taster except when in England, lest an enemy poison him. The royal corpse was not cold before some of the more excitable members of his staff demanded an autopsy to determine whether or not their sovereign's sudden death was due to foul play. Promptly surgeons at the University of Berne set their minds at rest. They found that King Feisal, "The Sword Flashing Down at the Stroke," had succumbed to an advanced stage of arteriosclerosis of the aorta and coronary arteries. The King's cardiac condition had not been improved...
...gangway. Bermuda's Chief of Police hastened up, spoke in his ear. Machado & friends went back to their cabins. Asked by newshawks what would be his last wish if he knew he were about to die, he replied : "That Cuba might always be a free and sovereign State." He added: "If I had my Presidency to live again, I would do the same thing...
...Governor of the Reichsbank, rose for Germany (which went through the world's worst inflation) to snap, with obvious reference to the U. S., "Some countries have deliberately abandoned stable currency, trying to influence economic conditions by monetary experiments. However deeply we regret this, we cannot deny a sovereign state the right to do what it likes...
...first official royal visit to Southampton since Queen Victoria sailed in, nearly 50 years ago. On that occasion Victoria praised the plush carpet run out for her and the city fathers made the grievous social blunder of sending it to her as a souvenir. Last week a more tolerant sovereign was aboard the black steam yacht Victoria & Albert that slipped between green flats and gravel scarps up Southampton Water. It steamed past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren, past massed choirs singing "Rule Britannia...
...President Hoover sent a special diplomatic delegation to Addis Ababa for the coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I, King of Kings of Ethiopia, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God, Light of the World. Last week the Abyssinian sovereign royally returned the courtesy when his mahogany-colored son-in-law, Ras (Prince) Desta Demtu arrived in Washington in all his African splendor. Told off to escort him was the State Department's Jefferson Patterson. Only with the greatest difficulty had an Ethiopian flag (green, yellow, red) been dug up to deck the Mayflower Hotel, the Ethiopian national anthem...