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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poland's eccentric dictator, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, was besought by 1,500 delegates of the Monarchist Party to proclaim himself "Emperor of Poland" last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Monarchisms | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...federation are already being ably grappled with by a Royal Commission, it is felt that a casual hunting trip by Edward of Wales may do something to persuade the colonies and territories that they might like to have this pleasant, popular young man for their very own East African Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eastward, To Empire | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Africa, "I will never again make that trip without firearms, and I strongly advise against any one else doing so." An Afric native, it appeared, had frightened Mr. & Mrs. Davey by rising up out of tall elephant grass and hurling at their motor car a spear. *George V is Emperor of India alone and King of the remainder of the British Commonwealth of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eastward, To Empire | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...pitiable little scene passed almost unnoticed amid the triumph of MONDISM. Famed A. J. "Emperor" Cook, the fighting Laborite who precipitated the General Strike, rose and began to address the Congress with torrential passion, crying that trade unions exist not to cooperate with employers' associations but to wring concessions from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor's Jubilee | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...strain of his long, losing fight caused "Emperor" Cook to collapse in the Congress Hall. He was revived and stumbled out, to collapse again upon the pavement. On a sick man's bed the fallen "Emperor of Labor" learned of the vote which means that the British Empire is now settling itself to revolve sedately on the tried and trusty pivots of King and Capital. Such is British Labor's "Diamond Jubilee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor's Jubilee | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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