Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal prowess he displayed in Japan's behalf when Manchuria was last up before the League (TIME, March 21). Peremptory instructions to oppose the Hoover program at all costs were cabled from Tokyo to Japan's Chief Delegate at Geneva, Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira, father-in-law of Japan's Crown Prince...
...Republic filed protests last week against President Paul von Hindenburg's decree lifting the ban on Adolf Hitler's brown-shirted "Storm Troops" (TIME, June 27). In Munich, hot-headed Bavarians talked of remaking their Free State into a Bavarian Monarchy, restoring the House of Wittlesbach. Deposed Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria naturally tried to hasten the popular ferment, stopped just short of high treason to the German Republic...
Inevitably the puffing of Bavarian monarchists fanned a few German imperialist embers. Two thousand adherents of abdicated Kaiser Wilhelm II gathered at Dresden, were addressed by his daughter-in-law, ex-Crown Princess Cecilie. What she said did not amount to much but she joined in Hochs! and handclaps when General Bock von Wuelfingen went the whole hog, demanded the end of the German Republic and restoration of the House of Hohenzollern. Though this was certainly treason, Dresden police made nothing of it, stood about grinning, saluted ex-Crown Princess Cecilie when she went home...
Bomber Bovone explained to the tribunal last week that the "antiFascist concentration" in Paris had offered $50,000 for the assassination of Signor Mussolini, $5,000 for Crown Prince Umberto, lesser amounts for members of the Grand Fascist Council. He said he had no personal fondness for assassination, but found that the bombing business enabled him to support his mistress in luxurious style. Sbardellotto professed to be an idealist, announced that he was carrying on the work of the executed Michele Schirru. He said he had been chosen to kill the Premier by lots cast in Brussels. Had Signor Mussolini...
...indignation of thousands of listeners who gasped when two judges gave the world's heavyweight crown to Sharkey after 58 seconds' deliberation is supported by the considered judgment of the leading sporting experts. Caren's tabulation indicates that Schmeling totalled 262 blows landed as against his opponent's 256; for the great part of the fight Sharkey was retreating. His admission that the ruling could be given to either man means that the most Sharkey deserved was a draw. Although the majority of lesser known Boston sports writers conclude that the Czeckoslovak gob was the rightful victor, such judges...