Word: sovereigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elizabeth II"? The cheering crowds in Bruton Street were by no means certain that they were not cheering their future sovereign. The royal babe, although she is the King's third grandchild, outranks His Majesty's two grandsons, the sons of Princess Mary. This baby will ascend the throne in the event that she outlives George V, Edward of Wales and her father-providing of course that the Prince of Wales dies without issue and that a son is not born to her father. She thus ranks, at present, third in the line of succession; and only three...
...Herr President was likewise gladdened to receive from Oriental couriers a picture framed in solid gold encrusted with exquisite ivory mosaic work. Upon the canvas shone the portrait of a sovereign whose dark handsome features and calm imperious brow do not betray the daredevil brain within. A field marshal's uniform and the crown jewels of Persia served further to disguise this likeness of the Shahinshah Riza Shah Pahlavi, "the King of Kings," a onetime Russo-Persian adventurer, who recently overthrew the Kajar dynasty (TIME, Nov. 9, PERSIA) and has established himself on the throne of Persia with a civil...
...were on trial. Nearly half were for extremely radical Republican Brookhart for Senator, nearly half for Democrat Steck. Iowa had counted Brookhart elected, but Steck protested, and the Senate Judiciary Committee began months ago investigation of the pieces of "opaque paper" which collectively were designed to express the sovereign will of the people of Iowa...
...great and august sovereign whom God protects and the people love, has charged me to bring his salute to this land, which is forever Italian. I know you are obedient to the laws, and, being so, you will be protected today, tomorrow, always, by the King's just decrees...
...Plaza Del Almeria, the courtyard of the Royal Palace, a regiment of the Madras Hussars of Pavia was drawn up in honor of the Ambassador. Count Velle conducted him within. There Alphonso received him with the majesty of a sovereign, with the handclasp of a good fellow...