Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could not diplomatically recognize him, the logical man to have dealt with was General Gen Sugiyama, commander of the North China Army. Former War Minister, a thorough soldier who believes in "action before words," General Sugiyama (along with others of the military caste) feels himself responsible only to the Emperor. Fifty-nine years old, he was once a military attache at Paris, at another time a delegate to the Geneva Disarmament Conference of 1926. The prattle of diplomats, the explanations of foreign offices, the fine points of parliamentarians are not, however, for him. Last week he bluntly reiterated the Army...
...Emperor Franz Josef. A few days earlier, he had gone to witness Army maneuvers in Bosnia, a province whose patriotic aspirations he planned to satisfy, when he came to the throne, by giving it autonomy...
...Ghostwriting has-been practiced for many centuries. ... It seems to be definitely established that the speeches delivered by the Roman Emperor Nero were written by his prime minister, Seneca...
Confusion. A half-century ago a Japanese samurai advised his Emperor: "Wait for the time of the confusion of Europe ... we may then become the chief nation of the Orient." Two years ago the Occident was certainly confused...
Most disgusted man in Harlem last week was Hubert Fauntleroy ("The Black Eagle") Julian, who once trained fliers for Abyssinia's Emperor Haile Selassie. Because he could produce neither plane nor pilot's license (it has expired), the Civil Aeronautics Authority not only refused him a permit to fly the Atlantic, but told him he would have to apply for a student's permit, like any beginner...