Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Japanese mourned universally last week the death of Field Marshal Viscount Kageakira Kawamura, 76, whose life exactly spanned the modern Imperial Era of Japan...
Shortly before his death, the aged Field Marshal was present at the Imperial Shrine, in Tokyo, when a sleepy-eyed great-granddaughter of "The Restorer," Mikado Meiji, was presented to her Imperial grandfather. The tiny Princess Teru-No-Miya Shigeko, born only last December (TIME, Dec. 14), cooed at Field Marshal Viscount Kawamura. A question seemed lurking in his eyes. It is not known how great a destiny awaits Japan in the Princess' lifetime...
...Highness, Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden and Duke of Skane, is this month coming to the U. S. to attend the unveiling of a monument to Viking Leif Ericsson* at the Capital. Minister Bliss must help President Coolidge entertain. Yale, which has not had a special convocation since Marshal Foch visited it in 1921, † is going to confer upon the Prince, "archeologist, musician, athlete and religious leader," an honorary LL.D...
...Basil Zaharoff, famed "mystery munitions Croesus of Europe" (TIME, March 8, MONACO), contributed 1,000,000 francs to a "Save the Franc Fund," now being administered by Marshal Joffre. Other contributors: City of Lyons, 250,000; the Paris Herald (U. S. expatriates' daily), 100,000 francs and 222,000 more from its readers...
...undergraduates have been invited. Beside the toastmaster, three other men will act as speakers at the dinner. These are President Lowell, Professor A. N. Whitehead, who has recently come to this country from the University of London, and M. A. Cheek '26, President of the Student Council and First Marshal of the close...