Word: duke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zealand and Australia? all leery of Japanese immigrants?Great Britain is no longer the formal ally of Japan. But informal relations continue close and cordial between the first and third greatest naval Powers. Last week wise Mother England sent one of her very nicest sons?downy-lipped Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V.?to bestow the Most Noble Order of the Garter on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan...
...arrival of the Duke of Gloucester in Tokyo created a hostess problem almost as interesting as Washington's strange affair of Mrs. Gann. Positively the Empress Nagako could not serve. She is with child. Therefore the Sublime Emperor, Hirohito Tenno, descendant of the Sun Goddess, promoted to the rank of hostess for a day the gracious Princess Setsu, wife of the Emperor's next older brother and heir, Prince Chichibu. Not so long ago Miss Setsu Matsudaira was a pupil at the Friends (Quaker) School in Washington, D. C.. where her father was until recently Japanese Ambassador. Last week...
When greetings had been exchanged upon the Tokyo station platform, the Sublime Tenno indicated that Prince Chichibu should ride publicly into the city with the Duke of Gloucester, while His Majesty hastened off in an unheralded limousine to his wife. She has born him two daughters? one of whom has died. If the child is not a son this time, the Empire will indeed mourn...
...William Hunter Workman Fellowship for graduate study and research either in this country or abroad has been awarded to John T. Edsall '23. Tutor in Bio-Chemical Sciences. The Woodbury Lowery fellowship for research in historical archives in Spain which was founded by the Duke and Duchess of Areos, in memory of Woodbury Lowery, brother of the Duchess, has been given to Carleton S. Smith...
Died. Michael Michaelovitch Romanov. 68, Grand Duke of Russia, cousin of Nicholas II, son of the late great Grand Duke Michael Nicholaevitch (1832-1909); in London, where his daughter Nadejda is the smart Marchioness of Milford Haven, wife of Prince George Mountbatten, potent kinsman of George V. Once used to an income of five million dollars. Grand Duke Michael had recently been employed in the British civil service at a salary...