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...Majesty the Tenno Hirohito proceeded amid pomp with his entire Court, last week, to the so-called "Palace of Awe," a shrine especially favored by the spirits of all his imperial ancestors. There he announced to them that on Nov. 10, 1928, he proposes to be officially crowned at Kyoto. Lest any of the august ancestors should not have heard him at the "Palace of Awe," Tenno Hirohito thereupon despatched messengers in quaint, medieval costumes to all the imperial tombs. Soon the revered occupants had no excuse whatever for ignorance of the intentions of their reigning descendant...
...Amir was obliged to move to the Grand Hotel. Reason: He wished to call upon "The Prisoner of the Vatican," and no caller is received who comes directly from official premises of the Italian State, the hypothetical "jailer" of His Holiness. Amir Amanullah, although a Mohammedan, accepted amid pomp from the Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, the "Order of the Golden Spur...
Kermit Roosevelt and John M. Franklin, with no pomp but little circumstance, began the rate war. They are respectively the sons of the late President Roosevelt and President Philip Albright Small Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine; and respectively they are the president and vice president of the Roosevelt Line, which operates U. S. Shipping Board vessels between India and U. S. ports on the North Atlantic...
Chiang Looms. Marshal Chiang Kaishek, a bantam weight, trim-figured "Nationalist," who disdains pomp and affects a simple khaki uniform, loomed, last week, as likely to be first in the field of springtime civil war. His personal headquarters are at the great seaport Shanghai; but he has recently been chosen the civil and military head of the "Nationalist Government of China," a group of politicians and generals with headquarters at Nanking, nearby. Last week this group were preparing to hold, early in January, a plenary session of the Nationalist party congress?to concoct war plans. Since there was danger, however...
With high pomp and circumstance, a squad of Mexican officials and a squadron of mounted guards called at the U. S. Embassy in Mexico City for Ambassador-extraordinary-and-plenipotentiary Dwight Whitney Morrow. Clattering back through the streets, the cavalcade conducted Mr. Morrow to the presidential palace. On the stroke of noon, President Plutarco Elias Calles entered the ambassador's salon to receive Mr. Morrow's credentials, hear his speech and make reply. By coincidence, each spoke exactly 170 words, Mr. Morrow in English, President Calles in Spanish. President Calles asked Mr. Morrow to sit down...