Word: orientales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At his birth (1850) the last Shogun of Japan, Keiki, still held as military regent the power which had slipped from the Mikados some seven centuries before. When Kawamura was three years old, Commodore Perry, U. S. N., sailed into the harbor of Uraga near Yedo (Tokyo) with four ships...
It is hard for the human mind to conceive of a distinction without super-imposing labels of inferiority and superiority. In moments of quiet like the present, however, the conception of a respectful separation is somewhat easier than usual. And the use of this moment by the Survey Graphic in...
> Passed a resolution offered by Senator McNary of Oregon asking the Shipping Board not to sell the American-Oriental Mail Line to the "Dollar Line." The resolution had no legal force, but was adopted merely to bring pressure to bear to prevent a sale which was practically consummated. Mr. McNary...
¶ Six students, representing themselves as speak'ing for a mass meeting of 900 New York City students, called upon the President to protest against U. S. policy in China. Newspapermen learned that the President, in all kindness, advised them to increase their knowledge of oriental affairs by going...
The Herr President was likewise gladdened to receive from Oriental couriers a picture framed in solid gold encrusted with exquisite ivory mosaic work. Upon the canvas shone the portrait of a sovereign whose dark handsome features and calm imperious brow do not betray the daredevil brain within. A field marshal...