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...Japan's most exclusive millionaire country club. The late president of the club was Viscount Takaaki Kato, Premier of Japan, who recently died (TIME...
Recently he traveled to Italy, conferred with Mussolini, and returned to Belgium "fired with the ideal of action." Last week he acted up, scandalized most of his steady-going countrymen. His followers staged an anti-cabinet demonstration in Brussels, just as Crown Prince Leopold and Premier Viscount Poullet were about to receive the War standards of several disbanded Belgian regiments at the National Army Museum. Scattered throughout the crowd of 40,000 persons who witnessed this ceremony, the fledgling Fascists created a terrific uproar: "Keep the Army at full strength! Down with Poullet! Hang him! Vive la Belgique immortelle! Hurrah...
...even rising from their chairs to shout aloud. They were, in person or by proxy, the 700 millionaires who had been invited to come to this drawing room (the auction booth of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan) to bid for the first items of the collection left by the late Viscount Leverhulme, the manufacturer of Lifebuoy Soap...
...times persona grata with royalty. Edward VII created him a knight of the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. The Mikado elevated him to the rank of Baron and then Viscount...
...Died. Viscount Takaaki Kato, Premier of Japan; at Tokyo, following an attack of influenza...