Word: zauditu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Menelik ruled, as King of Shoa, the vicinity of Lake Tana, Aduwa, Aksum and Dessye. Three-quarters of the present Empire, including Harar and Ualual, he did not rule. Haile Selassie was born 44 years ago at Harar and in 1930 succeeded his cousin Menelik's daughter, Empress Zauditu, on the Throne...
...from the most important Rases. Almost immediately he got into difficulties. None too ardent a Christian, he attempted to bolster his reign by organizing a federation of tributary Mohammedan States. He promptly found himself excommunicated by the Coptic Church, and shortly thereafter pushed from the throne by his aunt, Zauditu (Judith) with the aid of his cousin, wily Ras Tafari, the present Haile Selassie...
...Waizeru Menen. Some years ago when Italy's sporting Duke of the Abruzzi visited Abyssinia, leaving behind him a gift war tank, he little realized what the present Empress would do with it. Her husband had been imprisoned in Abyssinia's Royal Palace by the then Empress Zauditu. Commandeering the tank, faithful Waizeru Menen sent it crashing through the Palace gates, rescued her husband. A woman of the world, Her Majesty journeyed with maximum pomp to Jerusalem two years ago (TIME, Oct. 9). Three hundred pounds of majesty beneath her State umbrella, symbol of Abyssinian sovereignty, she lent...
...Switzerland, a physician named Dr. Alexandre Garabedian who has been exposing certain Abyssinian matters before a committee of the League of Nations, said last week that when he was court physician to the Empress Zauditu, her nephew King Taffari twice asked him to poison...
Died. Empress Zauditu (Judith) of Abyssinia, 54, "direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba"; at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia; of "shock" on hearing that her husband, Ras Gugas Wali, had been killed in battle near Zebit...