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Dates: during 1920-1929
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No other monarch of a great power is so important to his subjects as the Emperor of Japan. To them he is a descendant of the Sun Goddess, and thus actually possessed of Godhood. Moreover, only one dynasty has reigned* and still reigns in Japan. All spiritual and temporal good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Toward Fuji | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

The Mikado, who died some little time ago, was revered by Japanese the world over as a deity supposedly a lineal descendant of the mythical sun-god. Funeral celebrations by his subjects in all lands are held at night, because of a belief that the imperial spirit must go from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAPANESE STUDENTS MEET TO REVERE MEMORY OF EMPEROR | 2/8/1927 | See Source »

Against his wits were pitted those of four Cantonese Nationalists whose names loomed internationally last week from the present headquarters at Hankow: 1) T. V. Soong, 33, a graduate of the Harvard School of Business Administration, later employed by the International Banking Corp. at Manhattan, now the outstanding civil leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Foreigners, Chang & Four | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

In Moscow, in solitary confinement at gloomy Buterka Prison, Ignace Ghabin, sentenced to death last year (but later commuted) because he had served Tsar Nicholas as imperial hangman, died. He had hanged 645 men, many of them "innocent political prisoners" of the 1905 revolution. At executions Mr. Ghabin always wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Executioner | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

Hotel Imperial (Pola Negri). In Austria, during the troubled days of the War, a beauteous chambermaid exerted profound influence upon the East European situation by confessing to the Russian invaders that the Austrian hero was in her room at a certain embarrassing hour, hence could not have murdered the Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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