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Thus TIME (June 18, 1923) reported the last convention held in Washington by the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the part Shriner Warren Gamaliel Harding had to play...
...stopped at Highland, N. Y., motored across the Hudson to the peaceful quiet of Hyde Park. There he would spend four easy days before going on to West Point to attend the graduation exercises at the U. S. Military Academy. By the time he returns to Washington the Shrine convention will be so far over that he will have to review only the last of three parades, "a spectacular pageant of floats with crews of dancing girls and actors." ¶ Next press conference after the one at which he delivered a message to the nation on the Constitution (TIME, June...
...more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges his every whim, from keeping a fond lioness at home to forcing the League of German maidens to make pilgrimages to the shrine of his late first wife who was a Swedish Baroness...
Japan's late, illustrious Emperor Meiji (1852-1912), who extracted his realm from Medievalism and started the buzz-saw of Progress, was prayerfully approached last week by 5,000 neat, respectful Tokyo policemen at the Meiji Shrine They hoped he would help them thwart the assassination of an especially honored guest of Japan's Divine Emperor bespectacled young Son-of-Heaven Hirohito With 15 days of such pomp as even the Orient has seldom seen, Japan was giving a $1,000,000 coming-out party for her shy puppet Emperor of Manchukuo His Majesty Kang...
Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper, 32-degree Mason, became a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine when its imperial potentate, the potentate of Almas Temple (Washington), one deputy imperial Potentate and one plain Shriner marched into his office, conducted a private initiation, marched out again...