Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belgium. Because Prince von Starhemberg comes of Austria's bluest blood and has always been considered a Legitimist, the pompous little Court of ex-Austrian Empress Zita in Steenockerzeel Castle near Louvain buzzed with a fury of preparation to pack off her handsome son Archduke Otto to Vienna as "Emperor" at the first opportunity. Sympathizing with Otto but anxious lest Belgium vex the Great Powers, King Leopold ordered every Belgian airfield watched. Officially the Belgian Government informed Zita's Court that she and her son are free to go, but only publicly. For years France bitterly opposed a Habsburg restoration...
...bronze coins of local manufacture. The diggers surmised that this was the ancient bank whose existence they had suspected since finding elsewhere in the ruins a papyrus recording what seemed to be bank transactions. All the coins were dated prior to 296 A.D. In that year Roman Emperor Diocletian banned local coinage to introduce a standard monetary unit of his own. Thus, if the four-celled structure was not a bank, it was the hiding-place of some Third Century miser, whose hoard had been rendered worthless by the imperial edict...
...this prayerful ending a hush gripped the throng. Click. The King-Emperor had closed the gold switch during his speech. Slowly as he spoke the great curtain rolled away disclosing the arched entrance to Queensway. Amid wave on wave of cheering His Majesty drove with the Queen-Empress by his side through the gleaming new arch and down under the Mersey with transatlantic liners riding at anchor over his royal head...
...This crime and other "purifying assassinations," all supposedly performed by patriots, are considered to have put corrupt politicians "on probation"?with no prospect of getting the Government out of the hands of the military for the present. Thus last week Premier Saionji had to advise the Emperor to choose another fighting service premier, another admiral or general. Courageously the Last of the Genro advised and the Son of Heaven appointed as Premier about the least quarrelsome sea dog to be found in the Imperial Navy, Admiral Keisuke Okada, retired...
Born. To Wilhelm II, 75, onetime Emperor of Germany: a great-grand-daughter, first child of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, eldest son of the onetime Crown Prince, and of Dorothea von Salviati, a commoner whom Prince Wilhelm married in June...