Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such conduct as this looked inexplicable to Western eyes lacking the historic focus of North China. Between 1931 and 1934 Japanese soldiers set up the genealogically ''legitimate heir" to the Throne of China as the Emperor of Manchukuo (see map), their puppet His Majesty Kang Te. The next logical step would be to seat this Manchu Emperor on the Dragon Throne of his ancestors at Peiping. To engineer such a coup, Japan sent to China her master schemer and spy, Major General Kenji Doihara who intrigued and bribed for the five North China provinces of Hopei, Chahar, Suiyuan...
Prince Konoye led a hot youth but was early marked for advancement by potent old Prince Saionji, now the 87-year-old Last of the Genro and chief adviser to the Throne. To the Versailles Peace Conference shrewd old Saionji took the then young Konoye, baptized him in diplomacy and statecraft. After revered Saionji returned to Japan he continued to groom the Prince with care, saw to it that Konoye at only 42 became President of the House of Peers, most of whose members are three decades older. It became a settled thing among Japanese insiders that...
Next evening, to the oak-paneled throne room of Holyroodhouse, where Bonnie Prince Charlie held court 200 years ago, flocked 500 of Scotland's socially elect to the first royal court Scotland had seen in 34 years. On guard was the Royal Company of Archers in green cloth uniforms embroidered with golden thistles. The King now in his scarlet, gold & blue uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Guards, but still with the Order of the Thistle, the Queen wearing a gold brocade gown and a diamond-&-ruby tiara * received over 200 Scottish debutantes who were thus spared...
...unruffled as he took his place for a meeting of the Central Executive Committee. With him on the dais sat President Kalinin, Premier Molotov and Defense Commissar Voroshilov. while in a box just below the dais sat Foreign Commissar Litvinoff. Business of this august Bolshevik gathering in the onetime throne room of the Tsars was to take preliminary steps toward setting a date and perfecting details for the first Russian election under the new "Stalinist Constitution" (TIME, June...
Married. Prince Charles Bernadotte, 26, nephew of King Gustaf V of Sweden, brother of the late Queen Astrid of the Belgians; in line of succession to the Swedish throne; to Countess Elsa von Rosen, 33, daughter of King Gustaf's Grand Master of Ceremonies, who two years ago divorced her cousin by whom she has three children; in Stockholm. By marrying a commoner, Prince Charles forfeited his rights to the throne, his Swedish title as Prince. He became a Belgian Prince by decree of his royal brother...