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Plot & Promise. General Henri Giraud last week dredged up a plot to usurp power and install the youthful Pretender, the Comte de Paris, as head of a North African kingdom. One guess was that the Comte would be shipped back to his pig farm in Tangier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pigs & Thorns | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

George, or Georgianna, as the case may be, was accompanied by a letter obviously written in Radcliffe script, in which the renegade mother stated that she had decided to abandon her columba to the CRIMSON as "a candidate to usurp the power of the infamous Ibis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queer Foundling Left Deserted on Crimson Doorstep | 2/10/1942 | See Source »

...believe that it is God's divine purpose that His bountiful and all-sufficient gifts to us should be shared by all mankind, and that no nation or government should usurp or withhold from others a fair possession of His gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Malvern to New Haven | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...Harlow offense. With Austle Harding ready to go, and with Frank Foley and Bob James ready to do some tossing of their own, there just remains to be seen who of Don Daughters, Bob Green, Torby Macdonald, and Joe Gardella will be the fair-haired boy who will usurp the honor of snagging the aerials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heading for a Fall | 10/22/1938 | See Source »

...plan . . . misusing them for its own selfish purposes, the consequence of which will be that all economic life in the entire world will go to ruin. . . . For that country (or countries) which is realizing my plan only for its own sake and its own egoism will despotically usurp hegemony over the entire world, and drag all humanity into servility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Advertisement-of-the-Week | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

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