Word: kobes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Cleveland last week reached San Francisco from Kobe, Japan, bringing six young men and their explanations why they were obliged to resign from the Floating University aboard the S. S. Ryndam, bound around the world (TIME, Sept. 27). They had, they admitted, rushed the guards at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, in their eagerness to see the unoccupied royal suite, held sacred to the Mikado and his family or visiting royalty. They had burst the imperial doors off their imperial hinges, sat on imperial chairs, lounged on imperial lounges. They had stormed a Buddhist temple, torn down an image, encountered...
...Minister of Marine, speaking before 1,000 notables gathered to watch the launching of the cruiser Kinugasa last week at Kobe, spoke with feeling of great Admiral Togo, now 78, who lay at that moment ill-and perhaps dying- in the modest house which he occupies in a suburb of Tokyo. The fleet has been built up by men like Admiral Togo, samurai ("military nobles") who went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations...
...second day of the flood? worst in eight years?all traffic was suspended. There were no trains to Kobe or Yokohama. Uncountable thousands were homeless. Deaths were reported. Reservists were called out to guard the bridges. It rained...
Pacific Mail Steamship Co. (The "California-Orient Line") from San Francisco to Honolulu to Japan (Kobe, Yokahama) to China (Shanghai) to the Philippines (Manila) and return...
...Dollar Line (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). These the white-bearded merchant Captain Robert (''Robbie") Dollar and his son, R. Stanley Dollar, put to work in a unique round-the-world one-way service. One sails every fortnight from each of the following ports in circuit: San Francisco, Honolulu, Kobe, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseille, Boston, New York, Havana, Colon, Balboa, Los Angeles, San Francisco and around again. They carry about 100 passengers who are permitted stopovers. These globe-girdlers...