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...baton upraised (see Cover&). Then in very loud and ringing tones he cried: "Our Heavenly and imperial ancestors in accordance with the Heavenly truths, created an empire based on foundations immutable for all ages, and left behind them a throne destined for all eternity to be occupied by their lineal descendants. By the grace of the spirits of our ancestors this great heritage has devolved on us. We hereby perform the ceremony of enthronement with the sacred symbols...
They knew that the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu-O-Mikami, was arriving with all the 123 dead Emperors of Japan, her lineal descendants, to witness and to bless the coronation of the present Emperor, the Sublime Tenno Hirohito...
...Rung, Oberlin B. A. 1906, Yale M. A. 1907, Oberlin Honorary LL.D. 1926, is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius (most revered Sage of China), and also a brother-in-law of President Chiang...
...Charles W. ("Postum") Post, Manhattan; Mrs. John North Willys (Whippet & Willys-Knight), Toledo, Ohio; Miss Mary Stevens Hammond (daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to Spain), Bernardsville, N. J.; Miss Anne Gordon Colby, daughter of ex-Senator and Mrs. Everett Colby, West Orange, N. J.; Miss Anne Washington Ferine, lineal descendant of both the brother and half-brother of George Washington, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Ronald Randolph Fairfax, Roanoke, Va.; Miss Mary Seton Lindsay, Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. John Marshall Slaton, wife of the onetime Governor of Georgia, Atlanta; Miss Alcy Sivyer, Milwaukee; Miss Sylvia Brewster, Miss Charlotte B. Brown...
...host, he shook respectfully a crinkly parchment hand. Soon two august heads were laid together in musical conspiracy: 1) The silky-haired topknot of Leopold Stokowski, vacationing conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony and 2) The clipped and pomaded poll of Prince Tokugawa, "the Japanese Otto Kahn," a lineal descendant of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") who ruled Japan from 1603 until the present Imperial Dynasty was restored...