Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republican Rage. Whether the Morgan Loan is enough to stabilize the peseta permanently or not, it was an unmistakable sign that sober foreign financiers believe in the permanency of King Alfonso's throne enough to lend...
...Suss," the author depicts the rise and fall of the power of Joseph Suss. At first merely treasurer to the Duke of Wurtemburg, he gradually increases in power until he finally controls the throne. The Menorah presentation of "Disraeli" in 1929 met with marked success...
...nice, oldish gentleman of short stature with silky white hair and keen blue eyes opened the Canadian Parliament at Ottawa last week, read loud and clear the "Speech from the Throne" of absent George...
Speech, Speech. While he was at it, Judge Duff made one of the longest and least exciting Speeches from the Throne that Canada has ever heard. The Bennett Government (whose members, of course, wrote the speech) did so well at the election last year (TIME, Aug. 11), that they can sit back with impregnable parliamentary strength, lofty and vague...
...exports will be further upped (Mr. Bennett being determined to batter down the U. S. tariff wall eventually by reprisals); and next month Mother Britain will come in for a buffet when Canada's provincial premiers meet for a Dominion Conference. As foreshadowed in the Speech from the Throne this historic conclave will sever virtually the last restraining bond and make Canada completely free of domination by London. This it will do by revoking the act which makes His Majesty's Privy Council in London the court of last resort in Canadian litigation. Once this tie is severed...