Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Hungary is more than ever expecting the return of its devout "Emperor"' Otto...
...villain of the great War was the German Emperor. The villain of today is David Lloyd George. He is wrecking the country...
Thwarted, humiliated as never before was George V, King & Emperor, Defender of the Faith last week. Not since his grandmother Queen Victoria wrote her anonymous letter to the London Times has a British sovereign evinced such intense displeasure.* Again last week the Times served as vox Regis, spoke for the Crown words which set every Briton of birth and breeding a-bristle with indignation. It all began at Australia House. Situated in the heart of London this outpost contains Maj. General Hon. Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie, High Commissioner in Great Britain for His Majesty's Government in Australia...
...Conscientious internes cranked and cranked at whirring centrifugal milk-testing machines. Zealous investigators checked the social status of each applicant lest some highborn peeress or ambitious bourgeoise sneak in. For by immemorial custom the two wet nurses assigned to each newborn child of the Son of Heaven, the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, must be of peasant status. At these two symbolic points in Japanese life the lowest and the most exalted meet...
Thus far the children of Their Majesties have been three daughters, one of whom has died. Japan's crown prince is therefore Prince Chichibu, eldest brother of the Emperor, but no allusion to this fact is ever made by the intensely loyal Japanese press. It is even widely held that the birth of a son to Prince Chichibu would be an intolerable affront to the Son of Heaven. Thus far Crown Princess Setsuko (daughter of onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. Tsuneo Matsudaira * has remained childless, an object of Japanese sympathy and esteem. Without venturing a direct comment...