Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nadir had liberated Kabul from "The Usurper," rapacious Bandit-King Habibullah. But as the professed champion of rightful King Amanullah (now in exile at Rome) the Conqueror and Liberator found himself last week in a slight quandary. Ambition and perhaps destiny called him to the Throne. Duty bade him proclaim the restoration of King Amanullah. Came a great warrior shout of "Nadir is our King!"-a pointed suggestion which, according to Mme Viollis, "the Conqueror heroically resisted." "If Nadir doesn't become King, we shall all go away!" chorused the tribesmen, or words to that effect. Still the Conqueror...
...United States and ourselves, having the same objects, should proclaim them with a united voice...
...course the Prime Ministry. Wildest rumors were current as to what this might portend: 1) That he had negotiated a secret pact of union between Italy and Hungary and was clearing his decks to become Supreme Chancellor of this dual realm; 2) That he was preparing to proclaim Italy an empire and would have bandy-legged little King Vittorio Emanuele crowned Emperor by His Holiness Pope Pius XI; 3) That he planned, perhaps most sensationally of all, to become like other Prime Ministers, to exercise only a general supervision over the State. Eagerly the Fascist hierarchy waited for a definitive...
...applauding Royalty's choice of a Slovene name for the baby Prince. Such a trick is typical of King Alexander, would only work of course on a people as simple as his peasants. Time after time His Majesty has employed the old ruse with success. Notably he waited to proclaim himself Dictator until the onset of a rustic holiday which, for a week every year, renders most of the peasants in Jugoslavia convivially tipsy, broadly complacent at whatever their Serb King...
...President Hoover last week studied a system of sliding sugar tariffs brought to him by Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels of California. He jiggled it around experimentally to see if it would protect both consumer and producer, then laid it aside to proclaim an increase in the tariff on linseed oil from 3 3/10 cents per lb. to 3 7/10 cents...