Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mussolini's declaration of policy-the voice of His Majesty rang loud and clear. As everyone had expected, the speech urged upon the deputies as their supreme duty ratification of the enabling legislation for the treaty and concordat recognizing Pope Pius XI as a temporal sovereign (TIME, Feb. 18). Apart from that, Vittorio Emanuele touched upon only one topic of general interest, disarmament...
...Professor Mihalusz. What could this mean? Startled, the Mayor ripped open the envelope, grew pop-eyed as he read. With all the pomp and felicity of Oriental diplomacy, His Majesty King Prajadhipok declared himself graciously and inexpressibly pleased to accord full recognition de facto and de jure to the Sovereign Republic of Slovakia. There is, of course, no such state...
Inasmuch as Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, is now a temporal as well as a spiritual Sovereign (TIME, Feb. 18). His Holiness allowed himself to be interviewed as such for the first time last week...
...temporal sovereign to another, Pope Pius XI requested King Vittorio Emanuele III to release the total of four priests who languished in Italian prisons, last week, one of them implicated in a bank swindle...
Junius begat "J. P." Dry goods receded into oblivion and the House of Morgan had its Louis XIV. Perhaps prosaic Americans never quite realized that in gigantic, predatory J. P. Morgan I they had an authentic Emperor of Railways and Commerce, a sovereign whose technically free serfs were trainmen, and who levied legal tribute on the public. Italians, quicker to perceive such romantic truths, commonly referred to Morgan in his latter years as Il Magnifico. The numberless art treasures which he carried off from Italy-by no better right than his irresistible power to pay any price-doubtless clinched...