Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people was the self-appointed mission of a young Magyar fencing-master named Toth. Like the Finns, Esthonians, Turks and Tartars, the Magyars are part Asiatic, are believed by some to be re- lated to the Japanese. Fencing-Master Toth chose for his king the brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, the smiling, near-sighted Prince Chichibu. Fencing-Master Toth neglected to notify Prince Chichibu of his appointment, but someone did notify the Budapest police. A squadron of them pounced upon the conspirators' Pest house, dragged 19 plotters off to jail, nipped the putsch while yet it was green...
Goose-stepping stiffly across the Yoyogi parade ground in Tokyo, column upon column of Japanese troops passed a reviewing stand upon which stood his owl-eyed Majesty. Emperor Hirohito. After the last ammunition truck and field kitchen had rumbled by. the Son of Heaven stepped down, entered a state coach and, escorted by a squadron of lancers, rolled back to the Imperial Palace. Just outside the Palace grounds the cavalcade turned in through the Sakuradamon or Cherry Village Gate. A Mr. James L. Vierhus, employe of a Peoria. Ill., tractor firm, was standing on the curb. Afterwards he told what...
...loyally toward the Royal Family last week, adopted a new set of stamps particularly pleasing to George V. His Majesty appears on the two-center, Her Majesty on the three-center and Edward of Wales on the four-center. Newfoundland's 6? stamp is reserved for the King-Emperor's favorite granddaughter, famed "Baby Betty," Princess Elizabeth of York...
Within 72 hours a new Japanese offensive was launched in Manchuria, characteristically at 4 a. m. and unquestionably under direct control of the Sublime Emperor represented by Field Marshal Prince Kanin. From Mukden, the Japanese base in Manchuria, brigade after brigade advanced southward in the dead of night, to be followed at 9 a. m. by roaring squadrons of Japanese bombing planes. Clearly the Japanese objective was to force the Chinese Army to evacuate Chinchow, the only major stronghold in Manchuria not already held by Japanese...
...Mother of God." Mary, said he, was Mother of Christ in His human nature only. This view, in spite of protests from Rome. Nestorius defended. St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, was appointed to inform Nestorius he must recant or be deposed and excommunicated; but in the meantime Theodosius II, Emperor of the East, called a conference at Ephesus to discuss the matter. For the orthodox Catholics, for the Nestorians, it was a long, tedious struggle. In the very first session Nestorius was anathematized, deposed, excommunicated. But Emperor Theodosius declared the session invalid, since Nestorius had been deposed unheard. At length...