Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rheumy-eyed Prince Saionji, the tottering Last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen) again had to rack his withered old brains last week. He and the Sublime Emperor faced another assault by Japan's big navy jingoes. Some 60 officers of the Imperial fleet, all potent sea dogs with the rank of captain or higher, had just laid reverently but firmly before the Throne a petition dangerous as dynamite. They asked the Son of Heaven to tear up in his infinite wisdom the chief naval treaties to which Japan is a party and to demand naval equality for her with...
Under the auspices of the Emperor Norton Memorial Association, the San Francisco municipal band played a selection, officers of native son organizations made appropriate remarks, the Olympic Club sang a song. A three-gun salute was fired by a battalion of the 159th U. S. Infantry, taps were bugled by an American Legion post. Provided by sentimental citizens with the honors his dust had waited 54 years to receive, the giddy monarch rested at last beneath a shaft marked...
...EMPEROR OF THE UNITED STATES...
Until this winter the Premier-killer sat in jail, was let out after the Sublime Emperor joyously decreed a general amnesty to celebrate the birth of Crown Prince Tsugu-no-Miya (TIME...
...Emperor Rang Teh (Henry Pu-Yi) of _ Manchukuo. Manhattan's Painter-Philosopher-Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich found a new Head of State upon whom to bestow the Roerich Museum's insignia, first class. Reason: Manchukuo's contribution to world culture...