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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amity, Calvin Coolidge congratulated Neguest Tafari Makonnen on his coronation as King of Ethiopia, talked to King Alfonso of Spain over a new transatlantic wireless telephone, pressed a button opening the 11th Maui county fair in Hawaii, made a speech on "material and spiritual welfare" before the 49th General Triennial Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church,? in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Sublime and Imperial Majesty the Empress Zaudita, daughter of the late Emperor Menelik II. conferred last week upon her cousin Ras Tafari, the trusted Regent of her Empire, a potent title; "King of Kings of Ethiopia, Conquering Lion of Judah and the Elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: King of Kings | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Soon Conquering Lion Tafari, who claims to be a descendant of Biblical King Solomon, was crowned, and a seven-day feast began. It was made all the merrier by the arrival of a cablegram from London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: King of Kings | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Crowned. Ras Tafari, onetime Regent of Abyssinia, now "King of Kings"; at Addis Abbaba (see ABYSSINIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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