Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tokyo Expects. In Japan it is the Sublime Emperor, 124th descendant of the Sun Goddess, who ratifies treaties. The Japanese Parliament has no say at all. In the face of concentrated, long-standing opposition by Japanese Navymen (TIME, June 2 et seq.), grizzled Prime Minister "Shishi" ("The Lion"; Hamaguchi journeyed last week to the Imperial summer residence at Hayama and, prostrate before the "Son of Heaven," presented Japan...
Black. English, Scotch, Welsh and Irish were the nurses chosen to attend George V during his desperate illness (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928 et seq.). Last week Irishwomen were one up on Englishwomen, Scotch-women, Welshwomen. Nurse Catherine Black (Irish) was appointed permanent nurse to His Majesty, installed at Buckingham Palace in comfortable chambers...
...Kreuznach on the Rhine, G.H.Q. of the German Army from August 1916 to February 1918, gallant, gruff old President Paul von Hindenburg last week halted his triumphal tour of the liberated Rhine provinces (TIME, July 14 et seq.) to stalk stiffly about the buildings where he had worked so long, so dishearteningly. A few miles further on, at Gräfenbacher-hütte, he stopped again, descended with his middle-aged son and adjutant, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, at a little cottage. Here during the War, to be near the campaigning Feldmarschall, lived the late Frau von Hindenburg. Solemn...
...tugs, barges, river boats in dock during the celebration. The only foreign ensign which the Hindenburgs saw was a huge U. S. flag flapping from the staff of Schloss Schönburg at Oberwesel, estate of T. J Oakley Rhinelander. Manhattan socialite, uncle of miscegenating Kip Rhinelander (TIME, Jan. 6 et ante...
...added three camels, three elephants, eight horses to the Egyptian props. Impressive in the big concrete stadium will be vocal choruses, troupes of dancers, parades in full oriental pomp. Russian Diva Anna Lissetshaya will be Aida. National Broadcasting Co.'s Pasquale Rescigno will conduct. Later Samson et Dalila and Cavalleria Rusticana will be given. Then Im- presario Salmaggi will take his principals to Hartford, Providence, Chicago, Montreal ballparks, will present operas with the aid of local choruses, bands, dancers, animals...