Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the Genro. Scouring Tokyo and suburban resorts, more mustards slew the Inspector General of Military Education, jovial General Jotaro Watanabe. They gravely wounded the Son of Heaven's Grand Chamberlain, doughty Admiral Kantaro Suzuki. They set fire to a beach hotel from which had escaped venerable Count Nobuaki Makino, for many years Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and one of the very few Japanese whom constant duty and association have brought humanly close to the Divine Emperor...
Whether or not Britain's Prime Minister can accurately be called "Bumbler Baldwin" has been a grave Empire question to which Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., last week gravely addressed himself in the House of Commons...
...Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, is the No. I member of the ruling British Conservative Party. No. 2 member is the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and younger half-brother of Sir Austen, who today figures as perhaps the Empire's leading "elder statesman...
...even greater care, Sir Austen went on to scrutinize the Prime Minister's conduct, remarks and policy respecting the Ethiopian Question (TIME, Dec. 30). Of portly, pipe-sucking Mr. Stanley Baldwin's confused statements in the House of Commons on that occasion, austere, hawk-featured Sir Austen Chamberlain concluded at crushing length: "I recall no comparable pronouncement by the head of the Government on a fundamental issue of defense in the 40 years of my parliamentary experience. Is it to be wondered at that some of us who are not alarmists, some of us who had a large...
...British playwrights. Bernard Shaw has had only four plays censored. I have had 32." The original version of Victoria Regina was a series of 32 one-act plays. Because three of Victoria's children, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Beatrice and the Princess Louise, were living, the Lord Chamberlain banned them all. Chuckled Playwright Housman last week: "We gave a private performance of the play and one of the ladies in waiting attended for Queen Mary to see if everything was all right. She reported favorably to Her Majesty, who then sent for the script. 'Dear, dear...