Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Samuel E. Morison '08, Historian of the Tercentenary, will follow with the address of the evening, speaking on "Harvard Past." Concluding the program, the Glee Club will offer "Then Round About the Starry Throne," of Handel, and "Fair Harvard...
Stanley Baldwin, in the so-called Speech from the Throne written by the Prime Minister for King George but read last week by the Lord High Chancellor in proroguing Parliament...
...death of his grandfather, the late great Menelik II, Lij Yasu seized the throne of Ethiopia, won a grudging allegiance from the most important Rases. Almost immediately he got into difficulties. None too ardent a Christian, he attempted to bolster his reign by organizing a federation of tributary Mohammedan States. He promptly found himself excommunicated by the Coptic Church, and shortly thereafter pushed from the throne by his aunt, Zauditu (Judith) with the aid of his cousin, wily Ras Tafari, the present Haile Selassie...
Right in the path of the Italian advance lies the fortress of Gara Mulata. Therefore Emperor and jailer took good care last week that Italy should have no chance to rescue Child of Jesus, set him up on Haile Selassie's throne. Secretly their prisoner was moved hundreds of miles to the southwest, to Bako where he could contemplate life and his chains near the craggy shores of Lake Rudolf...
Last week marked the 18th anniversary of the accession of fat, amiable, hoarse-voiced King Fuad to the throne of Egypt. Britain, who put him there, was acutely aware of two facts: 1) Fuad was educated in Italy, once served as an Italian artillery officer; 2) there are nearly twice as many Italians as Britons living in Egypt...