Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo, Judge of Agama, lineal descendant of the Prophet, had ascended to enjoy the limitless quantities of gold, jewels, silks, dates, rice, spitted lamb and beautiful women which await the Faithful in the Mohammedan Paradise. The Sultan, who for some years was the only sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag, lived on the tribute of his 500,000 Moro subjects, plus his pension from the Philippine Government, plus his land rent from British North Borneo Co. With this wealth the Sultan kept a primitive court where he enjoyed the favors of scores of wives...
...King Christian had made a Slesvig - Holsten -Sonderborg -Glikksborg family party of it, bringing his retiring German Queen Alexandrine, his second son Prince Knud and Knud's cousin-wife Princess Caroline Mathilde. Chief greeter was Iceland's 35-year-old Premier Hermann Jonasson, who led his Icelandic sovereign to a round of dinners, automobile trips, state council meetings and the signing of six years' laws...
...THOMAS SOVEREIGN GATES: DOCTOR OF LAWS, of Philadelphia, President of the University of Pennsylvania since 1930. "An eminent business executive who heeded the call of his alma mater and placed his talents at the disposal of the learned world...
...Constantin Cotolan marched among the chief mourners in the funeral procession of George V. From his unusual costume (see cut), gossips spread the tale that he was a masseur accompanying queasy Carol of Rumania (TIME, Feb. 10). It was later announced (TIME, March 9) that Constantin Cotolan's Sovereign had included him among the dignitaries to represent Rumanian War heroes...
...Cathrine Curtis, a tall, grey-haired onetime radio commentator. Wearing a tan costume and a roughrider hat, Director Curtis keynoted: "Have we been blinded by demagogs? Have we been lulled to a state of catalepsy by political pap, or have we been too lazy to assert and demand our sovereign rights? . . . Capitalism is not a devouring monster, and all the bitter denunciations emanating from ignorant and prejudiced sources cannot alter the fact that America owes her supremacy in world affairs to capitalism. . . . Woman, of course, through her great ownership of insurance, trust funds, stocks, savings bank accounts, homes...