Word: titular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was a new idea to many Britons. What had been a titular role, her trip had made real. Said the Economist sternly: "Let the bells, the bands, the saluting cannonade ring over London with no note of jealous possessiveness, no claim that the capital is taking back to itself a priceless possession that has been on loan . . . for it is the other Commonwealth countries which have a right to ask of Britain today that we should not overwork their Queen...
Nationally, the titular head of the party is Adlai Stevenson. But for more than three months. Stevenson has been jaunting around the world, keeping in touch with national headquarters only through hastily squiggled notes on postcards, e.g., a card showing a Malayan sitting on an elephant's head, with the notation that this man "rides the elephant much better than Ike does." Harry Truman, on the eve of a nostalgic visit to Washington, is lodged in a quiet limbo between politician and elder statesman, exerting no party leadership. His latest newsworthy act was to let traveling members...
Died. Milan Grol, 76, pre-World War II leader of Yugoslavia's Democratic party; in Belgrade. In 1945 he returned from wartime exile in London, became a titular Vice Premier, but with no actual power. When he realized that Tito was using his name as a liberal "front" while actually tightening the reins of dictatorship, he predicted gloomily that the Communists would wreck the country...
There is no doubt that Stevenson is today the most widely respected figure in his party. But that is no guarantee of real (as distinguished from titular) party leadership-as Wendell Willkie found out after...
Actually, most Britons seemed agreed that the Red Dean is no longer a laughing matter. The question is what to do about him. Even though she is titular head of the established church, Queen Elizabeth is unlikely to break a centuries-old tradition by revoking the lifetime patent given by her grandfather, George V. "There can be little doubt," mourned the London Times, "that, if there were any lawful means of dispensing with his services, his ecclesiastical superiors would long since have adopted...