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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time Premier. Not for many a year has a Governor General of Canada refused to heed such "advice" from a Premier, and accordingly the Liberals were able to ruffle the pride of Canadians by the slogan: "Is Canada a (locally autonomous) Dominion, or a (subservient) Crown Colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Canadian Election | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Thus an issue was created by the Liberals in which it was made to seem that Canada's cherished "Dominion status" was being threatened by "the Crown and the Tories." This essentially spurious argument was rhetorically strengthened by recalling that it was Mr. Meighen who drafted the Military Service Act of 1917 under which Canadians were conscripted and sent willy-nilly to fight for His Majesty George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Canadian Election | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Meanwhile a wife had been found for him, carefully chosen for her robust health and the proliferous reputation of her ancestors. She, Princess Sakado, espoused the present Emperor on May 10, 1900, and gave birth to the present Crown Prince on April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vastly Improved | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...present Emperor and Empress continued their studies with energy during the entire period when they were Crown Prince and Princess. He dutifully attended the Imperial Diet. She busied herself with the Japanese Red Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vastly Improved | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...Emperor's coronation was, however, delayed for three years while Japan mourned the death of his father. 'Not until Nov. 10, 1915 did he don the lacquered wooden crown of Japan and proclaim himself Tenno to his ancestors. At that time it was vigorously denied that he suffered from tuberculosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vastly Improved | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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