Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solve. Not only over British wires but over the U. S. circuits of United Press, the story of the Conference's three-times-No verdict went out with this lead sentence: BOMBAY (UP)-ENTHUSIASM RAN HIGH THROUGHOUT INDIA TODAY OVER THE ANTICIPATED VISIT OF KING GEORGE VI, EMPEROR OF INDIA, DESPITE A DECISION OF THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS TO BOYCOTT HIS CORONATION...
...Indian people accept and enter into the spirit of the new Constitution enacted in 1935 by the Mother of Parliaments and sent to them from London, together with a most able new Viceroy, the banker Marquess of Linlithgow (TIME, Oct. 12 et ante). Last week George VI, new King & Emperor, labored chiefly over reports from his Indian Empire...
Among Mr. Brisbane's likes were Mussolini, Calvin Coolidge, big families, aviation, and the Emperor Nero, who he vowed was history's most admirable, character. Mr. Brisbane was fond of describing executions, took a detailed and almost professional interest in Nazi decapitations, seemed to derive great satisfaction from the thoroughness with which the Italians mopped up Ethiopia. Some people & things of which Mr. Brisbane did not approve: atheists, "half-baked" college boys, gamblers, "brain-trusters." In his editorials Mr. Brisbane long affected to despise professional pugilism, liked to point out that "a gorilla could lick them all." Actually...
...Except in tennis which the King-Emperor plays left-handed...
Cabinet colleagues of Mr. Baldwin after this, adopted an attitude of stoicism, hoped that distinguished U. S. citizens arriving for the Coronation will realize that both the Prime Minister and the new King-Emperor mean well, that "it is really underlings who are to blame." For example, an unusual British Foreign Secretary had some overseas friends stopping with him in the latter years of George V's reign, and wanted to take them along to a State Dinner at Buckingham Palace. His civil servant secretary told him he would have to write and ask the U. S. Embassy...