Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo felt big. Next day he felt small. Newswoman Jane Grant made the Puppet Emperor feel big by interviewing him, with utmost reverence, for the New York Times. She backed out of His Majesty's presence and rushed off to cable: "The Emperor's face is studious and interesting and very expressive. At mention of any subject outside routine, his face lighted, his features were suddenly alive and his eyes were seen to be glowing with interest even behind his darkened glasses." Next evening the hollow-eyed Manchu puppet who lives with...
Stepping jauntily from his private car, Chichibu snapped a salute at the Puppet Emperor, then drew off his gloves and shook hands with Kang Teh. Japanese field guns began a long, long 101-gun salute for Prince Chichibu. When it was over he stepped into a Japanese limousine and whizzed off, leaving Emperor Kang Teh standing at the station. This, for a proper sovereign, would be the ultimate indignity, but the Puppet Emperor did not seem to mind. While the Japanese crowd rushed off to cheer Chichibu at the Japanese Embassy, the Emperor rode back to his palace. Hospitality...
Died. Admiral Heihachiro Togo, 86, Japan's "Nelson," highest ranking subject of Emperor Hirohito; of cancer of the throat; in Tokyo...
...just want to rest until the end," croaked Admiral Togo, "I am thinking of my Emperor-and roses...
Next day he died. In formal proclamation the Emperor decreed that he should have a State Funeral, the 17th since the Meiji Restoration 66 years...