Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Away back in 1889 Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil, reformer and pacifist, lost his throne by decreeing the release of hundreds of thousands of slaves belonging to the coffee planters without compensation. At the same time his pacifism alienated the militarists and his refusal to grant them the rights they demanded caused them to join the planters; since that time the two (planters and militarists) groups have remained together...
...mind is a volcano spewing up from his revolutionary soul the cruel lava of Communism. In this he differs from Rykov (TIME, July 14), who is the conservative power functioning noiselessly. Grigori is "the bomb boy of Bolshevism," whose autocratic impetuosity has earned for him the title of "Red Emperor." Again, he is different from Trotzky, whose aggressive spirit is tempered with shrewdness and whose power is wielded less by the force of oratory than by Machiavellian methods. In Zinoviev the fire of revolution burns unextinguishably; the power of his oratory is his most deadly weapon; his lips form revolutionary...
...jade, dragons, chop suey, hidden shrines, legendary treasure, lotus flowers, all served up with an authentic Oriental flavor. It is the story of one John Mallerdean, in the Peking Customs Service, whose great-great uncle first got a foot in China's open door by curing the Emperor Chienlung of his gout and temper. A most provocative mixture of fact and fancy, some at least of Mallerdean's adventures in the "lost Buddhist temple beyond the Western Hills" have a basis of historical truth, vouched for by the author's intimate knowledge of his locale...
...handed them over to the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, cousin of the Tsar and leader of the world-scattered Russian Monarchists. Describing the contents of the urns, General Janin said: "To me fell the difficult charge of bringing to France, for the Grand Duke Nikolai, the remains of the Emperor Nicholas II, of the Empress, of the Tsarevitch Alexis, of the young Grand Duchesses and of two servants. These poor remains could no longer be separated. The ashes of the Sovereign were mixed with those of his faithful valets. All that was recognizable was a finger, held by experts...
Died. Mrs. Ellen Channing Bonaparte, 72, "last of the Bonapartes in Baltimore;" at Washington, after a three-days' illness. Her husband, Charles J. Bonaparte, who died in 1921, was a son of Jerome Bonaparte (founder of the Bonaparte line in the U. S.) and a grandnephew of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of France. He was Secretary of the Navy under President Roosevelt and Attorney General of the U. S. from...