Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technique, and ship-building is very expensive there. . . . If a race develops the Japanese Navy will be very economical." It is less than a month since the Japanese Navy saddled the Empire with the most gargantuan defense budget in Japanese peacetime history (TIME, Dec. 3). Undoubtedly with grave misgivings, Emperor Hirohito, the bespectacled Son of Heaven, signed his Privy Council's awful decision last week as the world's only other Emperor of consequence was polishing the London Naval parley off into oblivion. The delegates did their own adjourning, but for Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, for Japanese...
...Corfu, his successful move to force the Greek Government to pay 50,000,000 lire ($4,265,000 Roosevelt) indemnity for the killing of an Italian general by Greek bandits. Two weeks ago II Duce was in a mood to smack that luckless Ethiopian His Majesty Power of Trinity, Emperor of Ethiopia and Conquering Lion of Judah, who promptly squealed protests last week to the League...
...eighteen years Louis Napoleon Bonaparte had been Emperor of the French. In this short time the country had recovered from a state of revolutionary chaos and was now without question the leading power on the continent of Europe. Twice the Emperor had led the people into war, both times successfully. Meanwhile a legend had grown up around him. He was considered variously as a Mephistopheles, a weakling, a fool, and an iron man. Now, in 1870 the time had arrived to test the legend. Prepared "to the last gaiter button," the famous French army, victors of Sebastopol and Solforino, awaited...
...terrible French bayonet charges were useless. Dashing cavalry attacks were equally futile. General von Moltke, sitting calmly at headquarters, could direct his troops by telegraph with the certainty that his orders would be completely fulfilled. All the French armies retreated steadily. Finally, when McMahon allowed himself and the Emperor to be cornered at Sedan the end of the war was inevitable...
...Before Wellesley's Professor William Alexander Campbell, backed by three museums and one university, reached the spot, the peasant had smashed up his find. But Digger Campbell went ahead to unearth greater treasures: a Greek theatre with an 80-ft. stage which inscriptions indicated was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, a life-size alabaster statue, probably of Hadrian, and a villa with remarkable mosaic floors. One design, composed of glass cubes tinted in pastel shades, showed a male and a female figure, representing Autumn and Harvest, reclining on a couch where they were served by a personification of Wine...