Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hsinking, fast-booming capital of Japan's puppet Empire of Manchukuo, the official Manchukuo News Agency dispatched last week this hot wire concerning hollow-eyed Emperor Kang...
...exalted spirit of Nurhachi, first of the Manchu Emperors, has appeared to His Majesty as he knelt in prayer. The image of the mighty Ancestor appeared vivid and distinct to the living Emperor. The spirit signified by gesture that the enthronemert of His Majesty is known to and approved by all his ancestors who sat on the Throne in Peking. The vision vanished as swiftly as it came...
Faced with this minor mystery, sympathetic friends concluded that ''Jimmy'' must have been elated that afternoon to the point of turning back the register and inserting himself ahead of the King-Emperor...
...Japan not only the fighting services, but also the Emperor, the peasants and the proletariat are out to soak the bourgeois rich. Before the soaking begins this week, the Diet was edified by a discourse from ingenious Mr. Koki Hirota. A stone-cutter's son, he once tried to get a job in the household of Captain John Joseph Pershing, then U. .S. military attache in Tokyo, who turned him down because "his English is so poor." Today Koki Hirota is Foreign Minister. "Please tell General Pershing," said he not long ago to Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, "that Hirota...
...Gold Eagle Guy" Button, a potbellied, acquisitive little seaman, is first discovered in a low bar. In & out drift some of the extraordinary figures of old San Francisco, including zany Emperor Norton I. Also present is famed oldtime Actress Adah Isaacs Menken, the "Divine Jewess" of Mazeppa. Guy Button insults her, gets a slap in the face. In return, he swears that she will change her mind about him. It turns out that he is right...