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...long-suffering people revolted and King Kalakaua granted the insurgents what was known as the "Bayonet Constitution." It came about at that time that Sanford B. Dole, who had been working with the reform party in the legislature, was made Judge of the Hawaiian Supreme Court. In 1890 the King died in California and his sister, Mrs. Lydia Dominis (styled Liliuokalani), the regent, was crowned. She soon showed herself reactionary. Another revolt was led by the "sons of the missionaries." The Queen was forced to abdicate. Sanford B. Dole was declared President of the Republic of Hawaii pending annexation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Requiescat | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...trample on a mother's son . . . Her blood my bayonet has warmed Great God I ask respite . . . But victory and death have won the fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unknown Poet Pays Memorial Day Visit to Widener Leaving Wreath and Verses Under Sargent Canvas | 6/1/1926 | See Source »

...SPANISH BAYONET?Stephen Vincent Benet?Doran ($2). It is characteristic of Author Benet that the pre-Revolutionary Floridian of his tale is an indigo-planter and breeder of cochineal bugs, not a farmer of yams or tobacco; that his name is Gentian, not Brown or Black; that he is not so much a retired army surgeon with impeccable manners and exquisite vintages, as a mage of the sinister arts, whose oval study is done in blue-and-gold leather with a star-powdered dome and a secret moonwindow. It is characteristic that Dr. Gentian's wife is a burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living Dead Man | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...peace teacher is Jesus Christ. When men have learned to live up to the teachings of this Prince of Peace they will go to war no more. There are economic reasons against war, and political and eugenic and humanitarian reasons, good reasons all, but men will still resort to bayonet and bomb so long as they have not imbibed the spirit of the Nazarene. That spirit is religious, of God, and produced and multiplied in a place of worship even better than in a place of scholarship. Only the highest ideals and the deepest convictions will uproot the seeds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chapel and Chair | 3/6/1926 | See Source »

...return, to my country to serve my people, whose noble character and loyalty to me in difficult times I shall never forget. ... The coup d'état which Reza Khan has just committed against the constitution and against my dynasty was made at the point of the bayonet. . . . Against it I have raised a vehement and solemn protest. I consider as void and without value all present and future acts of his government. I maintain all my rights and those of my dynasty to the throne of Persia, which, by the grace of God, I hold according to the fundamental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIA: Ahmad's Protest | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

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