Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Popular in Czechoslovakia is the Government's policy of seizing the broad acres of great nobles and parcelling them out among the poor. Last week seizure threatened 75,000 Czechoslovak acres belonging to a reigning sovereign, gentle old Franz Paul I, Prince of tiny Liechtenstein. This year Europe's register of kings, the famed Almanack de Gotha, has picked Franz Paul I for its frontispiece, displays him in hoary majesty. That from this old man the young republic of Czechoslovakia should plan to seize 75,000 acres seemed monstrous, infuriated the 10,000 Teuton Catholics who populate...
...Perhaps what is needed is an academic League of Nations. . . . Until something of this sort is done Columbia must remain one of those colleges which pays the penalty." (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931). Few other university officials agreed with President Butler, but at the University of Pennsylvania President Thomas Sovereign Gates last autumn inaugurated a system of de-emphasis. Under the Gates Plan, all athletics are in a department of physical education headed by a dean. Coaches rank as faculty members, will eventually be paid as little. Intramural sports are stressed. Only seven varsity football games were scheduled for 1932. Educators...
...Piddington recalled that he was not appointed to the Industrial Court during the Lang régime but previously. They prophesied that his stand will enable ex-Premier Lang to stump New South Wales in the coming election on the issue of Royal meddling in the affairs of a sovereign Australian state...
...permitted such a change in the status of that territory? It would immediately paralyze the economic life of the sixth largest State in Europe. It would deprive our country of its own direct communication with the countries of Europe. It would reduce our free and sovereign State to an impotent and pitiable land between Prussia and Russia. It would make Poland a cripple and a slave. We do not wish to be crippled and enslaved again...
...During the last few years college trustees have shown an increasing disposition to choose presidents from among themselves. President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, onetime Morgan partner, was chairman of the board's executive committee; President Stanley King of Amherst was a member of the board, as were President Walter Lee Lingle of Davidson College (N. C.) and President-elect Pat Morris Neff of Baylor University...