Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irish Free State Government "advised" King-Emperor George V, last week, to appoint a new Governor General to the Irish Free State. His Majesty was further "advised" that an acceptable appointee would be James McNeill, now resident in London as High Commissioner for the Irish Free State...
...full title of that pamphlet: "Caligula: A Study of Caesarean Insanity." When published, it temporarily wrecked the good Professor's academic career?for in it he dared to suggest that Wilhelm II might fall a prey to that madness born of power which destroyed the reason of the Roman Emperor Caligula (12-41). Because Professor Quidde has continued all his life to militate against militarism and to propagate German peace societies, he loomed, last week, as a distinguished "fraternizer" in the Nobel sense...
Action: the King-Emperor approached a huge power press and thrust into it, with well simulated carelessness, not only an object to be pressed but also his right hand. As the huge plunger crashed down, perturbed eyewitnesses could barely follow the lightning movement of a rubber guard which brusquely pushed the royal hand & forearm to a safe distance...
...Busch inherited one-eighth of her husband's $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 estate. On their golden wedding anniversary-to which President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Emperor Wilhelm and many another sent presents- Mr. Busch gave Mrs. Busch a diamond-and-pearl studded crown of gold valued $200,000. August A. Busch, their son, protested last week that the gems seized from his mother & sisters must be parts of a "rope of diamonds" which his father gave his mother and which she had had broken up into bracelets in Germany this year...
Progress of "Emperor" A. J. Cook's "army" of 400 unemployed miners, marching from Newport, Wales, to London (TIME...