Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Child of Jesus. Also on the march last week, and in drill formation for the first time in their lives, were thousands of Ethiopian troops called up by Emperor Power of Trinity. Short of rifles, famished for cartridges, many drilled with sticks, encouraged by U. S. Negro World War veterans with such martial commands as "Give 'em the works, boys...
...Italo-Anglo-Franco Exploitation Company "for opening up Ethiopia," and promise to keep out of that part of Ethiopia in which Britain has keenest interest, Lake Tana which feeds the Blue Nile. This proposition they made conditional on the unlikely fluke that it would be accepted by both the Emperor of Ethiopia and the League of Nations. It must also be accompanied, stipulated Captain Eden and Premier Laval, by a declaration that "the independence of Ethiopia remains unimpaired...
...Queen Victoria's only remarks to a phonograph were discovered on a squeaky old Edison cylinder last week, found to be singularly up-to-date and topical. The record, made at Her Majesty's command, voiced her goodwill toward the then Emperor of Ethiopia, great empire-building Menelik. Carried to his wild capital, a reproduction of the cylinder squeaked Victoria's august words into his hairy ear, while the original lay until last week in the archives of London's Edison-Bell...
...Djibouti the French colony shrugged as onetime U. S. Charge d'Affaires at Addis Ababa William Perry George displayed a brand new. diamond-studded gold watch emblazoned with the portrait of Emperor Power of Trinity who had given it to him "as a token of exceptional friendship.'' The watch was wasted, Frenchmen opined, noted with fresh shrugs that the new colony of U. S. correspondents at Addis Ababa gathered around His Imperial Majesty last week and joined in a solemn toast to Peace drunk in weak...
Peering through his heavy spectacles, Divine Emperor Hirohito, the Son of Heaven, observed groveling on the matting before him last week his large, old-fashioned War Minister, General Senjuro Hayashi...