Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safety ports" in Leftist Spain for the exclusive entry of food; 3) to try to agree upon a definition of military objectives. Mincing few words, he demanded "as a right" to be granted a belligerent status because: 1) he possesses more territory than his enemy; 2) he maintains a sovereign government; 3) he has an army and air force organized to guarantee order. Charging that vessels have taken contraband munitions into Leftist Spain with Non-Intervention Committee observers on board, General Franco complained that Rightist Spain is now denied the right of search on the high seas, that...
...German and Sudeten press gleefully asserted that by sending Lord Runciman Britain had "recognized" the Sudeten Germans. In Berlin, a prominent Nazi editor, with typical Aryan ineptitude, told to Associated Press (stipulating that he be not named), "No really sovereign state would accept an adviser such as Viscount Runciman. Can you imagine Switzerland, for instance, standing for such an adviser...
...house in which their son Benito was born. After that he traveled to Rocca delle Caminate. Il Duce's country home. At the entrance Il Duce greeted his royal lord & master, talked with King Vittorio Emanuele alone for half an hour. It was the first time that any sovereign of the House of Savoy had honored a mere commoner with a visit...
Taxation, The Court made three significant loopholes in its ancient doctrine that the Government cannot tax the '"instrumentalities" of a sovereign State. The Justices ruled that the Federal Government could collect taxes on: 1) the profits of operators leasing oil lands from the State of California, 2) the salaries of employes of the Port of New York Authority, 3) Football-receipts at the University of Georgia and the Georgia School of Technology...
...Sovereign Lord the King!" cried an equally black police officer, promptly reading the Riot Act to the cane-field workers, "chargeth and commandeth all persons being assembled immediately to disperse themselves and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the Act made in the first year of King George [I] for preventing tumultuous and riotous assembles. God save the King...