Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emperor trembled; the Regent trembled; the Empress trembled; the Crown Princess trembled; the Court trembled; the Cabinet trembled; the Diet trembled; the Japanese trembled; the Europeans trembled; the very buildings trembled; even the trees trembled ; the sea trembled; boats trembled; docks trembled - Mother Earth was angry, shook Tokyo in "one of the most severe earthquakes since the disaster of September last year." One house collapsed...
Ambassadors are exchangeable commodities. When Washington announced (TIME, Sept. 8, NATIONAL AFFAIRS) that it was sending Edgar Addison Bancroft to Tokyo as U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Tokyo scouted about to find someone to send to Washington as Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. in succession to smiling Ambassador Masanao Hanihara...
Next to cooks, ambassadors come and go oftener than any other kind of help. Last week, Secretary of State Hughes engaged two new ones, and President Coolidge announced their appointments. One of them, Edgar Addision Bancroft, was appointed to succeed Cyrus E. Woods as chef at Tokyo. The other, James Rockwell Sheffield, is to be maitre d'hotel succeeding Charles B. Warren at Mexico City...
...emulation of Defense Day in the U. S., Japanese military reservists proposed a National Drill Day to be held throughout the Empire on Oct. 23, the festival day at the National military shrine of Yasukuni in Tokyo...
Retirement is one of the chief divertisements of Ambassadors and one of the chief annoyances of Secretaries of State. Last month came the resignation of Ambassador Woods at Tokyo. Last week Ambassador Warren, at Mexico City, formally handed in his resignation, which had been anticipated for some time. He pointed out that he had accepted the post only in order to assist in carrying out the treaty, which he helped to negotiate, whereby Mexico was again accorded diplomatic recognition. He considered that the problems which had induced him to take the post were solved and felt he was at liberty...