Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected it would be-on a bench full of Japanese naval judges weak in English classics. They assumed that when Shakespeare wrote "honorable men" he meant honorable men. The case before the court last week turned on the pivots of honor, patriotism and Japanese devotion to the Divine Emperor. One by one the six assassins had testified that in slaying Premier Ki Inukai, a clever politician known throughout Japan as "The Old Fox," they acted "to bring the Emperor into more direct control of the Government." They also claimed that the assassination was a protest against the "shameful naval ratio...
Last September Capt. Juan Blas Hernandez, a bowlegged old bushwhacker who fought Tyrant Machado for years and had started a lively little campaign against the Grau Government, suddenly appeared in Havana, publicly embracing not only President Grau but also swart "Emperor" Fulgencio Batista, the onetime Sergeant who led the Army's revolt against its officers, and to the world's surprise has maintained control of the Army ever since...
Died. Princess Nobuko Asaka, 42, aunt of Japan's Emperor Hirohito. eighth daughter of the late Emperor Meiji, wife of Prince Yasuhiko; of nephritis; in Tokyo...
...acting is out of the ordinary. And this is not the case, for Sally Eilers, she of the perfect profile, contributes nothing that has not been seen before and Norman Foster is just as ill-at-ease and boyishly ingenuous as ever. For those who spilled tears for "Emperor Jones" and his untimely end, "Walls of Gold" is recommended as a breather, because everything turns out rosy in the end. Ralph Morgan plays the part of the wrong husband and does a masterful job of being incredulously fiendish. A serious spectator might contemplate justified murder as the only dose...
...grassy plains of Hokurokudo 30,000 Japanese troops made mimic war last week in Grand Maneuvers staged for the Sublime Emperor Hirohito by ambitious, sabre-rattling War Minister Sadao Araki who finally grew so elated by his own sense of Power that he committed a major indiscretion...