Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Pennsylvania last week celebrated the 165th anniversary of its medical school (oldest in the land) with banquets, speeches by five of the eight sages* to whom it gave honorary degrees, inspections of its vast medical plant, and President-elect Thomas Sovereign Gates' declaration: "I would rather see one ounce of genius developed here than tons of mediocrity...
Elected to fill the late Dr. Dorrance's place on the directorship of Pennsylvania Railroad was Thomas Sovereign Gates who recently resigned his partnership in J. P. Morgan & Co. to become president of University of Pennsylvania...
...good thing of his "vacations" in Havana. The fees of his law firm swell yearly. Bluntly, this potent Cuban feels that all Hague and no play would make Antonio a dull boy?wherefore alarums by Senor Ferrara at The Hague, the haughty Spanish phrases about the right of "sovereign states" to be as bumptious as they please, the comedy of Mutt & Jeff...
Iceland, which is technically not a colony but a sovereign state which happens to have the same King as Denmark, celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of its parliament month ago (TIME, July 7). Great Britain sent its largest battleship, foreign newspapers sent reporters, the world was made Iceland-conscious. Omitted from the festivities were the 21 bleary, rain-drenched Faroe Islands which straggle through the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetlands and have been Danish territory since 1386. Life is hard in the Faroes. Their industries are cod-fishing, sheep-raising, knitting golf sweaters, plucking puffin feathers. Their amusements...
Previously, although united with Denmark only in His Majesty's person, proud Iceland has keenly "felt" the fact that Danish statesmen were representing her at Geneva. Today jubilant Icelanders have for their 1,000th birthday present the final acknowledgment before all that in every respect they are a sovereign nation. Proud too are all Scandinavians that they alone have set the quarrelsome world an example by almost achieving disarmament. As part of the observances at Reykjavik last week their representatives signed a treaty binding them never to go to war and to accept the arbitrations of the Permanent Court...