Word: emperor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Paris flew Their Majesties' third son and tallest, the Duke of Gloucester, to entrain for Marseilles where he boarded H. M. S. Sussex last week and steamed away to manufacture goodwill in Australia. Originally Their Majesties' fourth son, Prince George, had been scheduled to go but the King-Emperor decided that for Prince George the Commonwealth of Australia would be "too great a strain" (TIME, Sept...
Adolf Hitler in a gaberdine pranced into hoary, high-spired Nuremberg last week for seven days of such pageantry and triumph as might befit the coronation of a Holy Roman Emperor. To heighten the excitement not even crown jewels were omitted...
Many a Nazi expected Realmleader Hitler to name his Vice Realmleader. equivalent to an Emperor naming his Crown Prince, for the powers and the term in office of Der Reichsführer are unlimited. In effect he is already Emperor. Would he dare do anything with those Crown Jewels...
Roots for this last move reach deep into the rich manure of European diplomacy. Abyssinia is perhaps the last independent kingdom in Africa. Ever since the gaudy coronation of kinky-haired Power of Trinity I as Emperor four years ago (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930), the country has been a secret battleground for Europe's colonizing Great Powers. Only port of entry is Djibouti in French Somaliland. Otherwise Italy and Britain hem the country in on all sides. In addition Japanese tycoons who have been dumping cheap cotton goods and manufactures in the country, are negotiating for great tracts of land...
...spirited suit for divorce last week, grizzled old General Josef Karel, once aide-de-camp to Emperor Franz Josef, denounced his wife for something new in the annals of Austrian jurisprudence: political infidelity...