Word: thrones
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...years ago, he arrived on the River Humber with his son Canute, conquered the country and was accepted as king. Before he could be crowned, according to one legend, Sweyn was stabbed to death at Thetford, Norfolk, by patriots of the ancient Anglo-Saxon "underground." Canute* got the throne...
Archduke Otto, 30-year-old Pretender to the throne of the nonexistent Austrian Empire, presumably fit for the Army, learned that he would be called to his local board within two months. His project to organize a special U.S. Army battalion of Austro-Hungarians had been abandoned by the Army and State Department as a nuisance...
...thugs spread terror, his henchmen grabbed Italy's financial and economic power, and through the organized murder in 1924 of Giacomo Matteoti, the one dangerous leader of his opposition, boosted him to a modern tyrant's throne...
...radical palace shifts following the crisis in empire, there emerged last week five new faces on the board of directors of Ford Motor Co. For the first time, some of the men who had toiled anonymously in the palace sculleries stepped into the throne room. Now they would act as President Henry Ford's war cabinet, would help him rule his fabulous domain...
...Threads. From St. Peter's throne the prospect before and after stretches into centuries and millenniums. The Vatican's long-range purpose is its timeless spiritual mission. Its immediate concern is the welfare of 331,500,000 followers. The layman has seen it bend to temporary expediency. But, as in its disagreement with Nazi Germany over the meaning of the 1933 Concordat, the Vatican has never been known to surrender rights it considers basic: to educate the youth, guide the family, govern the bishops...