Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government itself, whether it be that of a city or that of a sovereign state or that of the union of states, must, if it is to survive, recognize change and give to new needs reasonable and constant help. . . People require and people are demanding up-to-date government in place of antiquated government, just as they are requiring and demanding Triborough Bridges in the place of ancient ferries." Beginning a three-week vacation as he entrained for Hyde Park immediately after the dedication ceremony, Franklin Roosevelt eased away from the cares of Drought, Labor and Politics, reached home...
...developing muscles weakened by lack of daily use," the sovereign system of Professor Edith Lindsay of Oakland's Mills College is swimming. "Swimming," she declared last week, "tops all activities as to values in physical, social, psychological and recreational development. . . . Besides direct effect on muscles, swimming is a superior activity in strengthening the vital functions and organic vigor of the body. The massaging action of the abdominal muscles needed to keep the internal organs in a state of tonus is provided by the leg thrash, which is controlled by muscles originating on the pelvis. Circulation is speeded. The heart...
...King George. Her eldest son had just reached the age of 42. He celebrated by creating Queen Mary a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order founded in 1896 by Queen Victoria. Her Majesty received this decoration from His Majesty for her "personal services to the reigning sovereign...
March 5 first British sovereign to order an automobile not made in the United Kingdom, a Canadian McLaughlin-Buick. March 18 first levee of Edward VIIIth reign, held at Buckingham Palace. April 2 spent two hours instead of the customary two days receiving the Privileged Bodies of Great Britain, the Clergy, university officials etc. April 9 revived the disused custom of personally distributing "Maundy Money" to the poor in Westminster Abbey. April 20 cabled congratulations to Adolf Hitler on the Realmleader's birthday. April jo on the death of King Fuad of Egypt received his successor King Farouk...
Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) President Isaiah Bowman of Johns Hopkins University LL.D. President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania. .. .LL.D. President William Edwin Hall of the Boys' Club Federation of America. . .M.A. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago LL.D. President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories D.Sc. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison. .. .Litt.D. Historian George Macauley Trevelyan.Litt...