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Japan's present system of peerage, of which the new Premier is a top-ranking member, numbers about 1,000, was established in 1884 as a subtle method of breaking the power of the feudal Samurai. Titles are ki (prince), ko (marquis), haku (count), shi (viscount), dan (baron). All are hereditary titles, all except the first can be conferred on commoners. There is also the equivalent of British knighthood in the Ikai or Kurai. Only in classical poetry or Gilbert & Sullivan is the Emperor called Mikado, is generally called Tenshi (Son of Heaven) or Tenno (Heavenly King...
Secretary of State for Air-Viscount Swinton...
Seeking to prove that the late William Waldorf Astor, Viscount Astor was not expecting to die when he set up a $46,000,000 trust fund in the U. S. Aug. 15. 1919, two months before he died, Attorney John William Davis had Nurse Mary Louise Jeffreys read into the record in Federal District Court in Manhattan last week the Viscount's rules for longevity as penned in letters sent at the time of the trust fund to his grandson, then aged twelve...
...jury finds that the late Viscount Astor did not set up the trust fund to defeat expected estate taxes, as the U. S. claims he did, but merely to escape feared Wartime British capital confiscations, the present Viscount Astor and Major John Jacob Astor, heirs, may recover $10,825,721 in estate taxes collected by the U. S. Government in 1922, plus interest raising the sum to over...
Died. Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, 72, famed longtime British Laborite; of a heart attack; in Tilford, Surrey, England. Son of a poor Yorkshire weaver, he passed the civil service examinations at 22 and was sent as a customs official to the Orkney Islands, where a bicycle accident crippled him for life. He went into politics and became first Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924, 1929-31). His hard-headed insistence on rigid economy brought the British Government through the early part of the Depression. Philip Snowden was branded a "traitor" to the working class when he and Ramsay...