Word: sovereignly
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...Curran, cocky and combative, refused to let his Dry inquisitors dismay him by their wilful interpretations of these facts. With redoubled pertness, he shot back at them: "The 18th Amendment will be repealed in about five years, I think. There are five sovereign States [New York, Maryland, Wisconsin, Montana, Nevada] now in revolt against this measure. . . . Three out of four Americans are in revolt. . . . This is the driest Congress we have ever had or ever will have. We have reached the bottom of the hill. The halcyon days of Prohibition are over. The tide is turning...
Money lenders to sovereign States are the firm of Kreuger & Toll, financing company of "The Swedish Match Trust...
Free people of sovereign States establishing a government of limited powers?...
...director of Special Inquiries and Reports in the Education Department of England and Wales, he disseminated sheafs of data on educational goings-on in Germany, England, France, Belgium, the U. S., he became in later years President of the Calcutta University Commission (1917-19). For this work a Gracious Sovereign was pleased to knight him. Sir Michael Sadler is now Master of University College. Oxford, where he likes to show students his collection of French and English paintings...
...list of First Things in the miniscule Papal State was added last week the first census. Bustling officials, notebooks-in-hand through courtyards and down alleys, listed a total of 565 citizens of the Papal State and subjects of its Sovereign, marginally noted 300 other inhabitants, as yet unnaturalized...