Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dopesters figure that the new cabinet will be supported by 320 deputies of the Right and Centre in a Parliament of 612. The Sacred Union (nominally of all parties) commanded 427 votes...
...Governor-General of the Union of South Africa is the Earl of Athene, brother of Queen-Empress Mary. When General Hertzog marched in with the collective resignation of the Cabinet, Her Majesty's brother saw to it that he marched right out again with a mandate to form a new Cabinet. This the General instantly did, appointing the Rt. Hon. H. W. Sampson to be Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, and recalling all his other ministers to their posts. Unofficially the peppery Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction that the Laborites have now come out squarely on the issue of social...
...bowl of soup. He did not realize what he had done until jovial Freidrich Ebert, later first President of the Republic, rushed in flushed with indignation and exclaimed: "What have you done? I hear you have proclaimed a Republic! Don't you know you had no right to do that...
...sanctified by Roman Catholics than is the Emperor Hirohito by pious Japanese. His Holiness claims to be no more than the divinely delegated and elected viceregent of Christ. His Majesty claims to be divinely begotten descendant of Japan's Sun Goddess, and is therefore sanctified in his own right...
...spaciousness of an airplane hangar rose the mighty Shishinden or Temple of Enthronement. Beneath the eaves of its high thatched roof, the Shishinden was open along its entire Southern side, facing a vast court yard, with the Sun Gate to the left (East) and the Moon Gate to the right (West). Within the hangar, Shishinden, near but slightly to the left and behind the Takamikura, stood a similar "Throne," the Michodai, "smaller by a tenth" - for the Empress. Pedastals and chairs were lacquered jet black...