Word: tokugawa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obsequies. Certain that Dr. Dan's departed soul was lingering near his body, over 1,000 Japanese came to his home bearing incense which they burned in the Presence. Burners included Prince Tokugawa, President of the House of Peers, Baron Hiranuma, President of the Privy Council, and the Minister of the Imperial Household who dropped an august intimation : the Son of Heaven will bestow posthumously on Dr. Dan the First Order of the Sacred Treasure. After a Buddhist funeral the august remains will be buried at Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo...
...afraid to be in Cuba last week were numerous merrymaking socialites, among them Mr. & Mrs. Irénée du Pont of Wilmington, Del., Prince & Princess Tokugawa of Japan, Princess Alexandra-Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Bishop James E. Freeman of Washington and U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim, whose dinner-party-of-the week was lavish...
...President Hoover dined Prince lyesato Tokugawa, President of the Japanese House of Peers, at the White House...
...What do you mean?" gravely replied Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, President of the Japanese House of Peers. President of the Japanese Red Cross, scion of ancestors who ruled Japan as Shoguns or Tycoons while the power of the Imperial House was in abeyance (1603-1868). "What are breadlines?" "He doesn't know what breadlines are!" exclaimed the questioner with a wink for his fellows. "Why sure, you know Prince, breadlines are a lot of poor guys standing in line to get a handout-breadlines, see?" "We have had nothing like a breadline in Japan that I have ever heard...
Among the 63 nations represented was a large delegation from Japan whose interest was heightened by the appearance and the speech of rotund Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, non-Rotarian president of the Japanese house of Peers...