Word: kimmochi
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...progenitor was such an empire builder that today the ancestor's face ennobles ten-yen notes, and his diary, which Prince Konoye owns, is valued at $12,500 a page. Konoye's father was an intimate, and he has been a protégé, of Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen), who at 90 is almost a demigod. Prince Konoye is one of a handful who can come & go at the Imperial Household at will, and can sprawl in a chair before the Emperor. He is said to be the only man in Japan...
...Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, after a stomach operation, in Skagen Jutland; Prince Kimmochi Saionji, 87, Japan's last surviving elder statesman, as a result of "a train ride too soon after luncheon." in Okitsu, Japan; Deaf-mute Teacher Helen Keller, after an abdominal operation, in Rochester, Minn.; Maryland's one-eyed Governor Harry Nice, after an emergency operation for removal of an abscess, in Baltimore...
...political parties, the Japanese electorate and the Emperor were immensely relieved, felt that the tide of militarism had at last turned. As always before choosing a new Premier, the Emperor immediately got in touch with 88-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (elder statesmen) who advised the late great Emperor Meiji. The ancient Prince had the very man groomed for such an emergency - dapper 45-year-old Prince Fumimaro Konoye, president of the House of Peers, an independent, nonparty aristocrat who was nominated for Premier three years ago while he was in New York taking the temperature...
Neither the Army nor the Navy was eager to guard the Last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen," famed Prince Kimmochi Saionji, for many years Japan's great moderator. As the chief councilor of young Emperor Hirohito, venerable Prince Saionji has been for long years Japan's "Maker of Cabinets." Fortnight ago he barely escaped Army assassins. Only policemen last week comprised his guards...
...machine-gun none other than "The Last of the Genro," or long-venerated Elder Statesmen who were responsible with Japan's late, great Emperor Meiji for opening up the Empire, mechanizing it and making Japan a Great Power. The last of the Genro is 86-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, outwardly a very gentle old man who asks thoughtful questions of the greatest living Japanese and never makes any comment or suggestions himself except to the Son of Heaven...