Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The first issue distributed in Japan was August 27 with General MacArthur on the cover. And copies of the next issue (Sept. 3) were being printed within sight of the moated Imperial Palace in Tokyo four days after the 1st Cavalry Division entered the southern outskirts of the city.
Twelve days after Tokyo's worst recorded earthquake (Sept. 1, 1923), famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright received a cablegram from the Japanese baron who ran the Imperial Hotel: "Hotel stands undamaged as monument to your genius. Hundreds of homeless provided [for] by perfectly maintained service. Congratulations. Signed, Okura Impeho...
Wright had built daringly and well against earthquakes: he designed the Imperial to float like a flexible collection of barges on Tokyo's soft mud. The floors were cantilevered on supports which carried them the way waiters carry trays on one hand. To keep the center of gravity low...
Prince Higashi-Kuni pictured Japan as virtually prostrate. The U.S. air, sea and island offensive had paralyzed commerce, crippled railways, dislocated industry, agriculture and home life. Now, "in obedience to the Imperial proclamation, we should bear the unbearable. . . ."
The contract was both flowery and nebulous. It said that the company was "sympathetic to the enlightened and wise guidance of His Imperial Majesty . . . and his Government toward the destiny, which by history and background, Ethiopia so well deserves." In return for the concession, Sinclair promised to devote part of...