Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under dog and a black one at that, Ethiopian Emperor Power of Trinity decided to appeal last week to President Roosevelt and the collective conscience of U. S. citizens. Resident in Ethiopia are 125 U. S. citizens, 110 of them missionaries. Judging by them His Majesty felt he was appealing to a highly Christian people who had given the world the Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." When Ethiopia was successfully pressed by President Coolidge to adhere to this Pact, Ethiopians hoped they had an ace of some sort in the hole, and they looked...
...Addis Ababa the Emperor of Ethiopia, shrewd Power of Trinity, who is racially more of a Jew than a Negro, announced last week that his predominantly Negro people are "ready to fight" if attacked. To British correspondents he loudly protested that Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia and Denmark now refuse to sell Ethiopia arms at any price, in obvious collusion with Benito Mussolini. "I shall march to battle with my archbishop carrying the Ark of the Covenant before me!" cried Power of Trinity. "I shall lead my troops in person onto the battlefield and I do not expect to meet there Premier...
...scale in St. Johnsbury, Vt. in 1830. It was the first substantial improvement in the art of weighing since the Romans developed the graduated steelyard. Before he died, the taciturn, ingenious Vermonter was honored as one of the great inventors of the 19th Century. He was knighted by the Emperor of Austria, awarded high Saracenic orders by the Bey of Tunis. In the U. S., Fairbanks scale were used in every general store, post office and coal yard. Their accuracy was proverbial. Huge freight car scales were supposed to respond to the weight of a wandering chicken. In 1876 Josh...
Judicial Jules Sauerwein of Paris-Soir, dean of French foreign affairs editors, observed: "There is only one way to avoid war and that is for the Ethiopian Emperor to give Italy adequate satisfaction. Any other method will end in a breach between Italy and the League and in profound disturbance of France's entire policy in Central Europe. If Britain should invoke international principles, we shall be able to reply that she herself sells them cheaply when it is a question of modifying, by her sole decision, the entire naval status of the Reich...
Pointing to China as the Orient's most horrible example of attempted Democracy, the Bishop of Exeter concluded: "Life in India is much more like that in China than in Exeter! Twenty years ago some wonderful hopes were expressed about China. When the power of the Emperor was removed, there were to be representative institutions and responsible Government. Why has China's fairest province just been plucked from her? Because her generals are all dishonest! Their morality is completely gone...