Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty crossed the Channel from France in a British warship, escorted by five destroyers and five airplanes. Edward of Wales met him at Dover, and they traveled swiftly by special train to Victoria Station, London. There the King-Emperor and Premier Stanley Baldwin waited...
During the Shogunate (1603-1867), while the Emperor's powers were subordinate to those of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("Great Princes"), the Eta touched bottom, groveled at the level of animals. Then the Restorer, the conquering and enlightened Emperor Meiji (1853-1912) recovered the Imperial Power; and, amid numerous reforms, raised the Eta to full status as ordinary citizens...
Saito Keynotes. When newsgatherers were called into the presence of Viscount Saito, they found him amid the homage and the state which befits a man who has recently received the personal mandate of "The Son Of Heaven," the sublime Tenno (Emperor) Hirohito of Japan. Moreover Admiral Saito is now Governor-General of Korea-a post of almost vice-regal dignity. This very rich, potent and shrewd old man read a statement keynoting on two vital points...
...Majesty George V, King and Emperor, reputedly ordered conveyed to Conservative Premier Stanley Baldwin last week a very strong though private intimation that His Majesty disapproved the Cabinet's sensational proposal to "reform" the House of Lords (TIME, July 4). The reform would limit the number of peers, and thus, by implication, abolish the sovereign's present prerogative to create additional peers at pleasure. Last week not only the King but a very large number of the younger Conservative M. P.'s made known their opposition to the proposed bill which would vastly increase the power...
...orphans, and the weak," and must possess a name untouched by scandal. Last week, in Berlin, there was inaugurated as Grand Master of the Order of St. John a gentleman whose virtue is unsmirched, Prince Oscar Charles Gustav-Adolf von Hohenzollern, 38, fifth son of onetime King and Emperor Wilhelm...