Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peace negotiations continued. ¶ Dozed as Premier Baldwin, seemingly fatigued, "run down," replied to Mr. Lloyd George that the time for granting a subsidy had irredeemably passed. ¶ Perused with interest garbled reports of a general conference of Miners' Federation delegates in London at which A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, bitter-ender Communist secretary of the Miners' Federation, reputedly admitted that the miners may have to accept a lower wage than that for which they are fighting but enjoined them to a last ditch fight to retain the seven-hour day. The Seven Hours Act was temporarily abrogated...
...Belgians journeyed sadly last week to a great chateau near Brussels, entered, came softly into the presence of a very old but smiling, clear-eyed princess whose retainers address her as "Your Imperial Majesty." "So it is Prince Albert," she said, "Albert, my little nephew. So, so. . . . The Emperor is not here yet. But he will come, Albert. He will come soon. . . ." Princess Charlotte, daughter of the late King Leopold I of Belgium babbled on. Their Majesties answered her questions gently, tactfully, with heavy hearts. The day was the 69th anniversary of her marriage to Maximilian of Austria, who became...
...Against the advice of his brother, the Emperor Francis Joseph, he accepted the Crown of Mexico upon promise of support from Napoleon III, which was not forthcoming. Abandoned, he made a last stand at Queretaro in the spring of 1867, but was captured, court-martialed, executed on June 19 of that year...
During the war the dissolute youthful Emperor Lij Yaser committed the disastrous dual stupidities of embracing the Islamic faith and the Germano-Turkish cause. Vexed, a majority of the feudal chieftains of Abyssinia, stout Christians according to their somewhat pagan lights, supported a successful pro-Christian, pro-Ally revolution. Prince Taffari, an able statesman but by lineage a mere great nephew of the revered late Emperor Menelik, was prudently installed as Regent for the Empress Zanditu, a daughter of the Emperor Menelik, and proclaimed heir to the Throne by the revolutionary feudal lords...
...TIME, May 3). They came in behalf of "The Son of Heaven," the abdicated Emperor Henry P'u-yi, a handsome clear-skinned boy just turned 20, who ascended the throne in his nurse's arms at the age of two, and toddled down from it, an obliging six-year-old, after the Republican revolution of 1912. For Henry the petitioning delegates asked justice: fulfillment of the abdication agreement of 1912 whereby he is entitled to receive an income of $4,000,000 a year and to retain the incalculably valuable Imperial estates. The delegates reminded Super-Tuchun...