Since Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in the County of Southampton on 28 October 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth, and to their heirs male respectively.

The position of prime minister is not outlined in any Canadian constitutional document and is mentioned only in passing in Schedule B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by King George VI.

Although the constitution of Canada states that the " Command-in-Chief of the Land and Naval Militia, and of all Naval and Military Forces, of and in Canada, is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen ," the governor general acts in her place as Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces and is permitted through the 1947 Letters Patent to use the title Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada.

Officials at Rideau Hall have pointed to the Letters Patent of 1947 as justification for describing the governor general as head of state, but others countered that the document makes no such distinction, either literally or implicitly, nor does it effect an abdication of the sovereign's powers in favour of the viceroy.

The first was Letters from Oxford, a collection of letters written by Trevor-Roper between 1947 – 60 to his close friend, the American art collector Bernard Berenson.

), American Odyssey: Letters and Journals 1940 – 1947, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999

In 1947, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The Letters Patent of 1947 respecting the Office of Governor General provide that, should the Governor General die, become incapacitated, or be absent from the country for a period of more than one month, the Chief Justice or, if that office is vacant, the Senior Puisne Justice, of the Supreme Court would become the Administrator of Canada and exercise all the powers and duties of the Governor General.

In 1947 his autobiography Adventures of a Ballad Hunter ( New York: Macmillan ) was published and was awarded the Carr P. Collins prize as the best book of the year by the Texas Institute of Letters.

In 1934 Davidson won the National Academy of Design's Maynard Prize, and in 1947 the American Academy of Arts and Letters hosted a retrospective featuring nearly 200 of his works.

* National Academy of Letters ( Uruguay, 1947 )

From 1947 to 1950, he worked as researcher and physics instructor at the Escola Politécnica and in the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of the University of São Paulo, where he studied cosmic radiation under Italian physicists Gleb Wataghin and Giuseppe Occhialini.

* Vandiver, Frank Everson, Confederate Blockade Running Through Bermuda, 1861 – 1865: Letters And Cargo Manifests ( 1947 ), primary documents

E. Ann Matter, Ph. D ( born 1947 ) is Associate Dean for Arts & Letters and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

* 1947: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Denver

From 1947 Rodrigo was a professor of music history, holding the Manuel de Falla Chair of Music in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, at Complutense University of Madrid.

A patent for such a device was issued to New York restaurateur Juvenico Maldonado in 1950, based on his patent filing of 1947 ( U. S. Patent No. 2, 506, 305 ).< ref >

The International Patent Institute ( or IIB standing for Institut International des Brevets, its French name ) was an intellectual property organisation established on June 6, 1947 in The Hague, Netherlands, by a set of European countries, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

* International Patent Institute ( Institut International des Brevets ), an intellectual property organisation established on June 6, 1947

On November 20, 1947, NBC filed with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office to make the chimes a registered service mark for identification of radio broadcasting services, the first such audible service mark to be filed with that office.

The addition was granted in 1947 as British Patent Nº 587, 206.

* Scanning System for Color Television, U. S. Patent application by George E. Sleeper, Jr. for CTI, filed in 1947.

He soon also began guest lecturing on patent law, and during the late 1940s, he became the president of the New York Patent Law Association, and in 1947 became part of a two-person committee to draft a new U. S. patent statute, all while continuing to practice law full-time.

In 1947, the King issued letters patent granting his Canadian governor general permission to exercise all those powers belonging to the monarch in respect of Canada and, at the Imperial Conference of 1949, the decision was reached to use the term member of the Commonwealth instead of Dominion to refer to the non-British member states of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Many of these hit records were issued on new independent record labels, such as Savoy ( founded 1942 ), King ( founded 1943 ), Imperial ( founded 1945 ), Specialty ( founded 1946 ), Chess ( founded 1947 ), and Atlantic ( founded 1948 ).

From 1920 to 1935, and again from 1947 to 1959, the inhabitants of the Saarland used postage stamps issued specially for the territory ; see postage stamps and postal history of the Saar for details.

In 1947, Ryan X-13 Vertijet, a tailsitter design, was ordered by the US Navy, who then further issued a proposal in 1948 for an aircraft capable of vertical takeoff and landing ( VTOL ) aboard platforms mounted on the afterdecks of conventional ships.

After considering various specifications for such an advanced jet bomber in late 1946, the Air Ministry issued a request in January 1947 for an advanced jet bomber that would be at least the equal of anything the U. S. or the USSR had.

As a further insurance measure against both radical designs failing, in July 1947 the Air Ministry issued Specification B. 9 / 48 written around Vickers-Armstrongs ' more conservative design, later named Valiant ; work began in April 1948.

The Bank issued its inaugural loan of $ 250 million ($ 2. 6 billion in 2012 dollars ) to France in 1947 to finance infrastructure projects.

Commencing operations on 25 June 1946, it approved its first loan on 9 May 1947 ( US $ 250M to France for postwar reconstruction, in real terms the largest loan issued by the Bank to date ).

In 1947, King George VI issued letters patent allowing the viceroy to carry out almost all of the monarch's powers in his or her stead.

The governor general is required by both the Constitution Act ( previously the British North America Act ), 1867, and the letters patent issued in 1947 by King George VI.

Though the monarch retains all executive, legislative, and judicial power in and over Canada, the governor general is permitted to exercise most of this, including the Royal Prerogative, in the sovereign's name ; some as outlined in the Constitution Act, 1867, and some through various letters patent issued over the decades, particularly those from 1947 that constitute the Office of Governor General of Canada ; they state: " And We do hereby authorize and empower Our Governor General, with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada or of any members thereof or individually, as the case requires, to exercise all powers and authorities lawfully belonging to Us in respect of Canada.

The OPA was abolished effective May 29, 1947, by the General Liquidation Order issued March 14, 1947, by the OPA Administrator.

On 29 January 1947, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal issued a joint directive creating the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project ( AFSWP ) to control the military aspects of nuclear weapons.

In the interim, on April 15, 1947, Council of Ministers issued a decree # 493-192, ordering the Mikoyan OKB to build two prototypes for a new jet fighter.

In August 1947, the specifications for the project, now named " Regulus ," were issued: Carry a warhead, to a range of, at Mach 0. 85, with a circular error probable ( CEP ) of 0. 5 % of the range.

The ENIAC patent, issued in 1964 was filed on June 26, 1947, and granted February 4, 1964, but the public disclosure of design details of EDVAC in the First Draft ( which were also common to ENIAC ) was later cited as one cause for the 1973 invalidation of the ENIAC patent.

Frederick Viehe applied for various patents on the use of transformers for building digital logic circuits in place of relay logic beginning in 1947, issued through 1960, and assigned to IBM, working in his home laboratory.

* " Electronic Relay Circuit " ( The patent notes " My invention relates to electric circuits employing relays ...") filed May 28, 1947, issued January 31, 1961.

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* The Royal Conservatory of Music ; founded in 1886 as the Toronto Conservatory of Music ; reconstituted by a Royal Charter issued in 1947 by King George VI

Between October 1947 and March 1948 the Soviet Union rejected the candidacy of 12 nominations for governor, at which point the Tripartite Powers ( United States, United Kingdom, and France ) issued a note to Moscow and Belgrade on March 20, 1948 recommending that the territory be returned to Italian sovereignty.