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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...
...bill King Fuad refused to sign would have prevented a repetition of the 1928 coup d'état, when the puppet monarch dissolved Parliament and ruled with a puppet government headed by Mohamed Mahmud Pasha (TIME, July 30, 1928). Defied, wrathful Nahas Pasha replied to his sovereign by resigning and then- against all precedent-marched back into Parliament and, although no longer Prime Minister, asked and received a tempestuous vote of confidence...
...Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, Chief and Sovereign of the Supreme Order of the Annunziata, Hon. Colonel in the Spanish and Hon. General in the Swedish Army, Hon. Doctor of Laws (University of Philadelphia), sought last week through representatives before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York to prove that he is the heir of one Antonio Comincio, a Manhattan peddler who died in 1925 leaving an estate...
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...
University of Pennsylvania, until 1923, called its chief executives Provosts. Until 1926 Josiah Harmar Penniman held the title of President & Provost. Last week the university again evoked the title of President, conferred it upon Thomas Sovereign Gates, class of 1893, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Morgan partner, Drexel partner, board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Standard Steel Works, Midvale Co. From now on Tycoon Gates will be in charge of Pennsylvania's worldly goods. Provost Penniman will continue to direct the institution's scholastic affairs...