Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Saito Keynotes. When newsgatherers were called into the presence of Viscount Saito, they found him amid the homage and the state which befits a man who has recently received the personal mandate of "The Son Of Heaven," the sublime Tenno (Emperor) Hirohito of Japan. Moreover Admiral Saito is now Governor-General of Korea-a post of almost vice-regal dignity. This very rich, potent and shrewd old man read a statement keynoting on two vital points...
Prince Henry, third son of George V, spoke modestly enough at a Royal Academy banquet in London, saying: "Please remember that by profession I am a soldier, and that a soldier's training does not lead along the high road...
...John swears to "protect women, the orphans, and the weak," and must possess a name untouched by scandal. Last week, in Berlin, there was inaugurated as Grand Master of the Order of St. John a gentleman whose virtue is unsmirched, Prince Oscar Charles Gustav-Adolf von Hohenzollern, 38, fifth son of onetime King and Emperor Wilhelm...
Meanwhile the Kaiser's second son, Prince Eitel Friedrich Christian Charles, a Major General, was Grand Master of the Order of St. John. He had taken to wife the Princess Charlotte of Oldenburg, petite and ravishing as her famed ancestress Queen Louise of Prussia.* Ostensibly this smart and dashing royal couple also lived in a state of virtue suitable to the household of a Grand Master of St. John. Actually their secrets were fashionably half concealed. They had no children, and, not dull, they encouraged a certain very zestful officer of the guards Baron Frieherr von Plettenburg-Mehrum, Plettenburg...
...statecraft. The pose has deceived many. A man with so much leisure for all that art and culture have to give must be, it would seem, extremely lucky to continue strong. In a measure Jon Bratiano has been lucky. He was fortunate, for example, to be born the son of that greater Jon C. Bratiano (1821-91) who freed Rumania from Turkey...