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Word: emperors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trinity I, Emperor of Abyssinia, and it is to be used only for signing peace treaties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peace | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...another Scot was more in the eye of the news and of Edinburgh. The Assembly is opened every year by a Lord High Commissioner who represents the King-Emperor and gets ?2,000 for his work. This year the Commissioner was John Buchan, 57, famed author, third commoner and first "son of the manse" (minister's son) ever to get the appointment. Lord High Commissioner Buchan stayed at Holyrood Palace, where the town officers of Edinburgh ceremoniously gave him keys to the city (which by custom he handed back at once). Day the Assembly opened, he drove first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Edinburgh at Columbus | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...first, on the British cruiser which carried him to safety in 1919, with a "horrible sense of acute humiliation . . . that a grandson of Emperor Nicholas I had to be rescued from Russians by Britishers," Alexander thought of suicide. Further humiliations were to follow. In Paris he was informed that he would not be allowed to enter England, for the time being. The landlord of his Paris apartment held him up for back rent. When he called on his old friend Arthur Balfour, in Paris for the Peace Conference, he saw Balfour running for an exit to avoid seeing him. Asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ci-Devant | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...outbreak of large scale hostilities immediately north of Peiping." Meanwhile the retreating Japanese had made a left swing, showed up north of Peiping. To squelch Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers the new advance will "probably be on a larger scale than heretofore, requiring the special sanction of the Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Inside the Pale | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

...become the smiling white-winged father of Japanese aviation it was no longer a mustache but a religion, a white plume of honor that he had flaunted bravely under the enemy's guns in the Russo-Japanese War and swept low in homage before his Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Badge of Honor | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

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