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...King of Siam. Last week this potent small man (98 Ib.) was en route to clasp hands in Washington with President Hoover. When he does so the King of Siam will be the first Oriental ever to enter the White House with the rank and dignity of Reigning Sovereign...
...Supreme Court of the U. S., Arizona, unwilling partner to Hoover Dam, has pending a suit to halt the construction as an infringement on its sovereign rights...
...days after the bedside visit, the latest ruling Bourbon screwed his courage to the sticking point, signed the momentous decree. A new Chamber will be elected March 1, a new Senate March 15 and the decree states that on March 25 the Sovereign will personally open the new Cortes (Parliament...
...June 1838, the Sovereign State of Mississippi sold $5,000,000 worth of bonds to pay for 50,000 shares in Union Bank of Mississippi. In less than two years the bank was hopelessly insolvent. In 1842 the Mississippi Legislature denied that the State was under legal or moral obligation to pay the bonds in question. Thus occurred the first repudiation of a State debt. Similarly, in 1839 Mississippi defaulted interest on a bond issue sold in 1831-33 to raise funds for another State bank. Although the courts ruled against Mississippi in both cases, in 1875 Mississippi adopted...
...stoutly repeated Mr. Harman, "and as the sovereign of Lundy, I coined puffins and half-puffins as I have a right to do!" Counsel for Mr. Harmun argued that his 1,150-acre-island, 12 mi. off the north coast of Devon, is "not only outside the British Realm but outside the rest of the world.'' They declared that it was chiefly this circumstance which attracted Mr. Harman to Lundy, caused him to buy the island in 1925 for the round sum of ?10,000 ($50,000). Since then, self-styled Sovereign Harman has successfully exacted rent from...