Word: covered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hirohito Tenno would now speak to the people the solemnest words of his reign. Augustly he arose and stood with the baton upraised (see Cover&). Then in very loud and ringing tones he cried: "Our Heavenly and imperial ancestors in accordance with the Heavenly truths, created an empire based on foundations immutable for all ages, and left behind them a throne destined for all eternity to be occupied by their lineal descendants. By the grace of the spirits of our ancestors this great heritage has devolved on us. We hereby perform the ceremony of enthronement with the sacred symbols...
Inside your front cover are these words: "Cultivated Americans, impatient with cheap sensationalism and windy bias, turn increasingly to publications edited in the historical spirit. These publications, fairdealing, vigorously impartial, devote themselves to the public weal in the sense that they report what they see, serve no masters, fear no groups...
...front cover...
When first edition copies of Britannia were flipped open, the advertisement-getting potency of Inveresk Ltd. was apparent. Of the 96 pages some 32 had been sold for £200 ($970) a page, and £250 ($1,200) for the back cover, on which a Dunlop tyre was proclaimed "As British as Britannia...