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Both as human beings and as crowned symbols George & Mary in the glory of their Silver Jubilee were the King-Emperor & Queen-Empress of the Year, inseparable in the public mind. The year restored George II as King of Greece but his Throne trembled last week as he sought to master Greece's ousted Dictator. King of Kings, In 1935 there was just one man who rose out of murky obscurity and carried his country with him up & up into brilliant focus before a pop-eyed world. But for the hidden astuteness of this man, there would...
Outside Italy, the Emperor was clapped and cheered during 1935 in almost every cinema house in the world. His name entered the U. S. vocabulary in such homely exclamations as, "Well! If that's so, then I'm Haile Selassie!" In the last week of 1935, Haile Selassie reached Broadway as a character in the new George White's Scandals (see p. 24). Cries he: "Boys, our country am menaced! What is we gwine do?" From then until the curtain falls amid applause which almost stops the show, His Majesty and guardsmen execute a hilarious tap dance...
...peoples of Ethiopia are very old but the Empire is very young. When Chief (Continued on p. 16) Justice Charles Evans Hughes was a youth of 18 there was properly speaking no Ethiopian Empire and the future Emperor Menelik ruled, as King of Shoa, the vicinity of Lake Tana, Aduwa, Aksum and Dessye. Three-quarters of the present Empire, including Harar and Ualual, he did not rule. Haile Selassie was born 44 years ago at Harar and in 1930 succeeded his cousin Menelik's daughter, Empress Zauditu, on the Throne...
...weeks or months but of an immediate, an almost instantaneous Italo-British war. Elsewhere in his speech "Flying Sam," personally a sportsman of courage, denied that Great Britain is afraid, but he won not a few votes for Squire Baldwin by chilling the marrow of the King-Emperor's subjects thus...
Four days later the Vice President bowled into the White House, met RFChairman Jesse Jones. Had Texan Garner really appeared before Emperor Hirohito in his stocking feet? inquired Texan Jones. "No, sir," said Texan Gar ner, "they didn't make me take off my shoes." Pulling up his trousers, he ex hibited white socks above his high boots. ''See those? Well, they're the same socks I wore when I left Washington. Yep, Mrs. Garner washed them every day and darned them twice...