Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inky black and proud of her son Chief Tshekedi, the Dowager Queen Semane of the Bamangwato tribe beamed upon Admiral Evans, sure that she had influenced King-Emperor George V to reinstate her son. When Tshekedi was disciplined she cabled to Buckingham Palace. "O King, release for me the boy!" Actually King George signed the order reinstating Chief Tshekedi on the advice (i.e. instructions) of his Dominions Secretary, bluff, hearty James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine greaser...
Engaged. Wanda Toscanini, 26, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, 29. They became acquainted last winter in New York when Toscanini and Horowitz were rehearsing Beethoven's Emperor Concerto for a Philharmonic concert...
...untranslatable title of All Men Are Brothers is Shui Hu Chuan-three words which mean "water," "margins," "novel." In the 13th Century, in the reign of Emperor Hung Chung, the Celestial Empire was disordered and seemed decayed. On a mountain set in a lake surrounded by marshes 108 men, fugitives from society, took refuge, set up a robbers' lair. Like Robin Hood's merry men they never ground down the faces of the poor but pillaged the rich and warred against unjust rulers. Readers will find this chronicle of their deeds and stratagems amazingly fresh, and once their...
Next move of President Grau's Government was to deal with the Cuban officers still besieged in the U. S.-owned National Hotel which they turned into an impromptu fortress after the sergeant's coup of "Emperor" Batista (TIME. Sept. 11). Tipped off to expect trouble, the National's U. S. Manager, W. P. Taylor, and his three assistants went out to a late dinner about 10 p. m. and did not return. Shooting started next dawn. Before sundown the entire vicinity was to be a bloody bedlam...
...Emperor" Batista, who had gotten much personal credit for his soldiers' anti-Red foray, was again man of the hour. Correspondents reported strong talk of an Army coup against President Grau. While visiting the wounded next day in his automobile the President was shot at by snipers whose bullets struck his convoy...