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Indochina
Indochina Fr. Indochine, former federation of states, SE Asia. It comprised the French colony of Cochin China and the French protectorates of Tonkin , Annam , Laos , and Cambodia (Cochin China, Tonkin, and Annam were later united to form Vietnam ). The capital was Hanoi . The federation ...
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Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Arthur Seyss-Inquart , 1892-1946, Austrian National Socialist leader. In Feb., 1938, Chancellor Schuschnigg of Austria was forced by German pressure to appoint him minister of the interior. Seyss-Inquart became chancellor a few hours before German troops entered (Mar. 11) Austria. The Anschluss ...
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Lord William Cavendish Bentinck
Lord William Cavendish Bentinck , 1774-1839, British administrator in India. He served in the Napoleonic Wars and was (1803-7) governor of Madras. He was appointed governor-general of Bengal in 1827, assuming the title governor-general of India in 1833. Bentinck was strongly influenced by British ut...
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Edward VIII
Edward VIII 1894-1972, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1936), known in later years as the duke of Windsor; eldest son of George V . He attended the naval colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1911 he was made prince of Wales. During World War I he served as a staff ...
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Levi Lincoln
Levi Lincoln 1749-1820, American public official, b. Hingham, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1772. A lawyer, he held various local offices during the American Revolution and later became a Jeffersonian political leader. He served (1801-4) as U.S. Attorney General. He was subsequently lieutenant governor and...
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Sir William Gooch
Sir William Gooch , 1681-1751, colonial governor of Virginia (1727-49), b. Yarmouth, England. He came to Virginia after distinguished service with the British army. Nominally, Gooch was only lieutenant governor, but he was in fact the real chief executive in the colony for 22 years. He defended the ...
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Thomas Edmund Dewey
Thomas Edmund Dewey 1902-71, American political figure, governor (1943-55) of New York, b. Owosso, Mich. Admitted (1925) to the bar, Dewey practiced law and in 1931 became chief assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. After briefly serving (1933) as U.S. attorney, he was appo...
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Robert Marion La Follette
Robert Marion La Follette , 1855-1925, American political leader, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (1906-25), b. Primrose, Wis.
Early Career
Admitted (1880) to the Wisconsin bar, he practiced in Madison, Wis., and was district attorney (1880-84) of Dane co. As U.S. Representative (1885-91), he ...
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Ronald W. Reagan
Ronald W. Reagan
Beginning as a radio sports announcer, Ronald W. Reagan (born 1911) enjoyed success as a motion picture actor and television personality before embarking on a political career. After two terms as governor of California (1967-1975), he defeated incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter for ...
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Ivan IV
Ivan IV or Ivan the Terrible, 1530-84, grand duke of Moscow (1533-84), the first Russian ruler to assume formally the title of czar.
Early Reign
Ivan succeeded his father Vasily III , who died in 1533, under the regency of his mother. When she died (1538), the regency alternated amon...
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