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...most countries, the sovereign never dies. Edward of Wales will be King of England the instant King George's death is known. But Albert was King of the Belgians, not King of Belgium, and the Belgians will have no king until he has sworn allegiance to their Constitution, a ceremony that was postponed last week until after the funeral of King Albert. For seven days then, the Belgians had no king. They were lucky in their king-to-be. Like his father, Crown Prince Leopold has had a hard practical schooling. He has served in the Belgian Senate...
...Transfer of all sovereign rights of the German states to their respective Statt-halters, or Nazi viceroys...
...with an iron comb. Venerated increasingly by Roman Catholics, Blasius became one of the most popular saints in the Middle Ages. Churches and altars were dedicated to him. In 13th Century England it was forbidden to work on his feast day, largely because St. Blasius' aid was held sovereign against throat and lung diseases...
...practicing poet on its payroll. His name is J. Alvin Kugelmass, onetime contributor to Scribner's and the American Mercury and his pay is $19.23 a week, the CWA wage for research workers. Since he is a CWA worker employed not for the pleasure of his sovereign but for the social and economic welfare of the country, Administrator Hopkins detailed him to make poems that would teach English to New York City's immigrants and illiterates. Some of them appear in The American News, a paper published by the Language Research Institute and written entirely in a vocabulary...
...young, blind lawyer who had not yet developed his resonant chime-like voice-Thomas Pryor Gore. Frequent court opponents, they were friends, and both had their shoes shined by a newsboy named Riley. In that frontier world all things were possible, for today Thomas and Gore* represent the sovereign State of Oklahoma in the U. S. Senate, and Fletcher Settle Riley is Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, youngest man to hold such an honor in any state. Thomas Pryor Gore was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1907 (the year that Oklahoma became one of the United...