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...President Coolidge for the first time attached his signature and made law a bill passed by Congress. It gives the privilege of franking her mail to Mrs. Florence Kling Harding. ¶ The President sent his congratulations to Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan on the occasion of the latter's marriage. (See Page 11.) ¶ Mr. Coolidge accepted a place as honorary head of a Business Men's Committee of the Foundation for the Free Distribution of the American Standard Bible. Other members of the Committee include Woodrow Wilson arid William Howard Taft. Said the President...
Following the recent attempt on the life of Prince Regent Hirohito and the resignation of the Yamamoto Cabinet (TIME, Jan. 7), Viscount Kiego Kiyoura consented, after some hesitation, to form a new cabinet. Said he: "It is because I am a loyal subject of the Emperor of Japan that I cannot refuse to make an attempt to form a Cabinet in these most difficult times for the Empire...
...point a young man broke through the police cordon, ran a few steps after the Crown Prince's automobile, and, raising a "cane-gun,"* fired at the Prince. The bullet shattered the glass in the machine but did not harm Hirohito. Viscount Tamemori Irlye, Chamberlain to the Prince Regent, was wounded slightly by the falling glass...
...Prince. Crown Prince Hirohito, who, since November, 1921, has acted as Regent on account of his father's illness, was found to have escaped death "by one inch." The Prince continued on his way as if nothing had happened. Arriving in the Upper House of the Diet, he read an address to the members of the House in a calm voice, then returned to the Imperial Palace under heavy guard. No one present at the reading of the address knew of the shooting, but after the Prince had departed and the news became known, all expressed their highest admiration...
...American Embassy in Tokyo: "Ambassador Woods requests you to convey to the Prince Regent his personal sense of relief on learning of the Prince's escape from the attempt on his life...