Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this announcement the Lord Chamberlain did his best to spike the ever recurring rumor that the king will never resume his duties as ruler again, and that the Prince of Wrales is shortly to be proclaimed Regent_ In this case, of course, the Prince would preside at court, taking his place on the dais with the Queen. Despite the Lord Chamberlain, U. S. newsorgans reprinted the Regency story, insisted on it, and promised that the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin would proclaim the Regency of the Prince of Wales within a month...
...bankers have frequently been criticised for failure to proclaim in loud tones that stock market inflation is hurting U, S. business by making credit rates high and borrowing expensive. If the Market is on the way to running over a steep cliff into the sea, why have not the bankers endeavored to cast out its speculative devils? One reason, say cynics, is that the brokers are excellent customers...
...therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, do proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the fourth day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon. . . ." With this last Presidential proclamation, Calvin Coolidge summoned the Senate to confirm his successor's Cabinet and other appointments. ¶To the Senate for confirmation as U. S. Radio Commissioners President Coolidge sent the names of Arthur Batcheller of Massachusetts, Cyril N. Jansky Jr. of Minnesota; for associate justices...
From the Bishop of St. Albans, words majestic and inspiring might be expected. The present bishop is the Right Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, graduate of Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. He is 59 and long married. His fondness for golf and fishing proclaim him a philosophic gentleman. But an irruption from him last fortnight revealed the length to which a modern churchman, however anciently hallowed his setting, may let himself go when oppressed by the wickedness of the times. Bishop Furse was moved to speak out about divorce and about persons unbaptized. These matters had been rankling until the Bishop...
...Russian emigres who are satisfied: 1) that Cyril intrigued with revolutionaries against Nicholas II, and was well content when the Tsar was sent to Siberia (where he was later assassinated); 2) that as the revolution assumed an uglier phase Cyril was the only one of the Grand Dukes to proclaim himself "republican," and thus managed to remain snug in his palace at Petrograd, long after other Romanovs were exiled and many murdered; 3) that the Grand Duke Cyril actually renounced his imperial prerogatives, in a panic, and called himself "Citizen Cyril Romanov"; 4) that in any case Nicholas II detested...