Word: sovereigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many an echo of these lavish reports came back to Lilibet, and her sense of importance was in no way diminished by a kindly, doting old Sovereign whom she called "Grandpapa England." "They're cheering for you, you know," George V explained to her one day as he held her in his arms on the Palace balcony. Lilibet smiled radiantly. Later she was caught testing her royal prerogative by making a playmate bow low in homage...
...brought liberty. Instead it had left Koreans in a worse plight physically than under 40 years of Japanese misrule. Though he wanted U.S. troops to stay in Korea, Rhee wanted Hodge's heavy military hand lifted off the country's budding political life so that a sovereign, independent government could be formed. Nothing less would satisfy...
...Sovereign. But five justices (Vinson, Black, Douglas, Reed, Burton) disagreed, and by the weight of their majority their ruling became...
...Government as the sovereign, they said, stands beyond the jurisdiction of the Norris-LaGuardia Act. The Act only pertains to "persons" involved in labor disputes, and the sovereign is not "persons." Was it the intent of Congress, which wrote the Act, that the Act should not apply to Government? Union lawyers argued that if Congress intended to exclude the Government from the Act it would have said so. Congressman James Beck had argued at the time that Congress should have said so. Vinson impatiently, almost angrily, brushed aside that argument. "We do not accept his [Beck's] views...
...legal position, looked at from the same point of view, is equally impregnable. As one sovereign government to another, Greece would ask of the United States money with which to bolster up her ramshackle economy, civilian experts to aid her in reconstructing her war-torn country--and military experts and materiel to beef up her army of over 100,000 men. By so doing, the United States would take up where Britain left off--aiding the present Greek government to root out and destroy the EAM forces in the north and to supply the Greek and Turkish governments with...