Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whole Wheat Flour." Along one side stands the new, 24-ft. electric stove with two ovens, each capable of baking 40 loaves of bread or roasting 125 lb. of beef at a time. Mrs. Roosevelt was particularly pleased with a steam table called a "Thermotainer," as big as an emperor's sarcophagus, for keeping food hot. Another Thermotainer resembling a heavy, chromium riling cabinet on small balloon tires is used to deliver the President's desk lunch to him in his office...
...jammed every jewelry shop in the Kingdom to buy new gold rings for some 250 lire each ($20) to drop into the urns while they hide away their own golden treasures and wear the ugly iron of patriotism. Eight years ago at the watering place of Agnano, the present Emperor of Ethiopia gave a gold ring to his spinster bath attendant. Adele Chierchia, saying, "Let this be your wedding ring when you marry." Still a spinster and still a bathwoman, Adele dropped Haile Selassie's ring last week into one of Benito Mussolini's urns...
...Ethiopia but leaving the greater and by far the richest portion of the Empire intact (TIME, Dec. 23), Sir Samuel approached not apologetically but with a brisk question as to whether the House knew what other and spontaneous proposals for peace have in fact been made by the Emperor, the Dictator and the League. Ignorance was obvious on all sides. Many M.P.s sat up to listen as though hearing for the first time much which they might have read weeks and months ago in the Press. As if for the first time, the House seemed to learn that last autumn...
...from Addis Ababa Emperor Haile Selassie's newly-hired public relations counsel, chubby Josef Israels 2nd,* was in Paris last week with the text of a Deal for Peace drafted three months ago by His Majesty but "withheld in deference to the Great Powers...
...true that you were in a romance with the Emperor's daughter?" chirped a grinning newshawk. Cried delighted Julian, "Christopher Columbus! Such rumors about me-rumors, rumors, rumors...