Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elsewhere in Europe, "Radical" continues to be the name of a party which ceased to be "radical" in fact after it gained power...
...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 and roused slumbering Nippon from the so-called "Oriental stagnation" from which China is now clumsily emerging...
...young Kawamura enlisted in the army of the Great Mikado, Meiji, father of the present sovereign, who proceeded to overthrow the Shogunate (1868) and restored to the present reigning house the supreme power, which it has theoretically held for 122 generations?since the dawn of Japanese history...
...Kawamura rose through numerous preferments, until at the great victory of Mukden (1905) he was commander-in-chief of the Yalu Army. Thereafter he was made a Viscount, received the Order of the Golden Kite (First Class), and settled down upon the Supreme Military Council of a World Power which had been almost unknown to the Occident at his birth...
...nearly half a century since "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt I departed this life, full of years and power, having amassed a fortune in ships and railroads and begat William Henry (1821-1885), who begat Cornelius II (1843-1899), who begat Cornelius III (1873?), who begat Cornelius IV (1898?), who took a wife in 1920 and is yet without issue...