Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incomplete Imperial City. In an open courtyard a few handpicked correspondents saw court dignitaries in dragon gowns and fur hats with jeweled buttons bow low to the ground before a stuffed dummy on a lacquered and jeweled ebony throne. Blinking, spectacled Henry Pu Yi was about to become Manchu Emperor of the new state of Ta Manchu Tikuo, until last week Manchukuo, until two years ago Manchuria...
Only 28 years old, Henry Pu Yi is no stranger to thrones. Twice before has he been proclaimed Emperor of China. The first time was when he was two years old. In 1908 that crafty old mummy the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, who had ruled China since 1861, felt that she had not long to live. A prisoner on an island in the Imperial City was her nephew, the 37-year-old Emperor Kuang Hsu whose offense had been to attempt to modernize China and rid it of the burden of its old mandarins by the device of asking them...
...Schumpeter was appointed in 1915 to the Commission for the Socialization of industry in Berlin, on which he served until the socialist premier Renner called him to Vienna in 1918 to accept the Finance portfolio in the new coalition government being formed to replace that of the recently abdicated Emperor Charles...
...Schumpeter was appointed in 1915 to the Commission for the Socialization of industry in Berlin, on which he served until the socialist premier Renner called him to Vienna in 1918 to accept the Finance portfolio in the new coalition government being formed to replace that of the recently abdicated Emperor Charles...
...Married, she wins the trust of Russia's clever, lustful Empress Elizabeth (Flora Robson). The Grand Duke is moody, ill-tempered, pathological. He seeks Catherine's bed only when-like Queen Christina under different circumstances-she says she has had 17 lovers. When Elizabeth dies the new Emperor Peter III rules recklessly, becomes increasingly suspicious of Catherine and of all others whom the old Empress favored. In a banquet scene deftly underscored with pity he forces Catherine to sit at the foot of the table, has her Order of St. Catherine taken from her and placed...