Word: viceroy
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...Following me came the remainder of the first twelve, in order: Louis Marshall, famed New York lawyer and authority on constitutional law; Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, first Earl of Reading, Viceroy and Governor General of India, ' holding the highest position, next to King George, in the British Empire'; Nathan Straus, New York philanthropist; Georg Brandes, Danish literary critic, said to be the world's greatest, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Thomas Paine Association, the Royal Society of Literature, the Garrick Club; Chaim...
...Pashas?a Turkish title conferred by the Sultan; but on February 13, 1841, the Sublime Porte (Constantinople, the seat of the Sultan) made the government of the pashalik (territory governed by a Pasha) of Egypt hereditary in the family of Muhammed Ali, with the Turkish title of Vali (Viceroy). On June 12, 1867, the Sultan of Turkey authorized the change from Vali to the Persian-Arabic of Khedive, meaning prince or sovereign. This title was kept until 1914, when on December 19 the British deposed Abbās Hilmi because he supported the Kaiser, and installed Hussein Kāmil, the eldest...
...view of the necessity of balancing the budget, it is thought that Lord Reading, the Viceroy, will certify the tax in an Extraordinary Gazette (special order) as essential for the safety, tranquillity and interests of British India...
...more than the new constitution gives. An oath of allegiance to the King is required of every member of the new Parliament, but that is a form more than anything else and ought not to stick for long in the Irish throat. The Crown, too, retains a viceroy in Iceland, but he is governed by the wishes of the wholly Irish executive council. Except in the case of actual invasion the Irish Free State is not committed to active participation in any British war without the consent of its own Parliament. At the same time the British navy continues...
...extirpation of yellow fever, of far reaching importance in the history of Cuba and the Canal Zone, was a marked feature of his administration. In 1899 Harvard conferred on him at 38 the degree of LL.D. Lord Cramer, when asked to suggest someone to succeed him as viceroy of Egypt said that the only man who could be his successor was not an Englishman but an American--Leonard Wood...