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...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...
...Prince Takamatsu, second in the Imperial line of Japanese succession, and his doubly exalted bride (nèe Tokugawa, directly descended from the Schoguns or Tycoons who ruled Japan while the power of the present Imperial house was in abeyance), sailed from Yokohama last week on a globe circling honeymoon. In London H. I. H. will repay the visit to Japan of H. R. H. Prince Henry (TIME, May 13), and in Madrid grave, bespectacled Prince Takamatsu will pin the gorgeous Order of the Chrysanthemum ("Garter of Japan'') on sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain...
Engaged. Prince Takamatsu, younger brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan; and Kikuko Tokugawa, granddaughter of the last of the Shoguns (feudal lords); at Tokyo...