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Thus was crowned Tafari Makonnen, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah, the Elect of God, the Light of the World, Power of Trinity I, Emperor qf Abyssinia. For his spouse, the Queen of Queens, their Coronation was almost a coming out party. She is a chunky, chocolate amazon, he a small, slender, olive-skinned African Disraeli who astutely keeps her hidden. But they have much in common. Both looked on with glistening-eyed approval as "The Feast of Raw Meat" began. Lowing oxen had been driven into the courtyard of the palace until it was almost full. His Majesty...
President Hoover's autographed photograph was on its way last week through the Red Sea to Abyssinia as his coronation present to Ras Tafari, "King of Kings." Germany's President von Hindenburg also sent a signed picture of himself, together with 500 bottles of fine Rhine wine...
...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...
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...
Crowned. Ras Tafari, onetime Regent of Abyssinia, now "King of Kings"; at Addis Abbaba (see ABYSSINIA...