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Next the Most Holy Miron Cristea proceeded to convene the Orthodox Rumanian Synod. These venerable priests voted that, in the eyes of the Orthodox Church, the King and Queen are man and wife. Parliament paused, on the brink of passing a Royal Marriage Act which would make them man and wife...
...brink of tears, Miss Pyle said: ''While I feel disappointment and surprise in not receiving the nomination, such disappointment and surprise, of course, is a necessary ingredient of a convention of this character...
Japan Agreement. For days statesmen had conferred nervously while the conference trembled on the brink of disaster. Then came two important moves. London papers published, U. S. delegates refused to deny, what purported to be a complete U. S.-Japanese naval agreement, only needing the approval of the Emperor of Japan and the U. S. Congress to become effective, by which Japan accepts an approximate 67% of the British -U.S. naval strength instead of the 70% she had been demanding before Japan's recent election confirmed Prime Minister Hamaguchi in office (TIME, March 3). In detail...
Since then the latest trial which Her Majesty has magnificently borne was the long excursion of George V to the very brink of Death (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928 to July 15). Night and day she intelligently aided the doctors to save her husband, the statesmen to rule his realm. As presiding officer of a specially created Council of State she signed for His Majesty hundreds of state papers, among which the following Order in Council was not the least: "It shall not be lawful to import any hen or duck eggs in shell into the United Kingdom, nor to sell...
...which is more than frugal Iceland's na- tional debt). Moreover, neither France nor England has as many telephones per capita as Iceland. Amid such evidence of soundness and prosperity there was simply no proper reason, last week, why the Bank of Iceland should be on the brink of ruin ?except mismanagement...