Word: abe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when ragtime was still the thing, a natty Chicago tunesmith named Abe Olman wrote a dumpy, foursquare little ragtime tune called Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! Within a few months it rolled up a sale of nearly 1,500,000 copies. Then, as it must to all tunes, oblivion came to Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny...
...revolution of 1932 has accomplished precisely nothing, convened in Tokyo. His Imperial Highness Emperor Hirohito read a classical rescript of welcome. Then, to everyone's surprise, 240 of the 466 members of the lower house of the Diet presented a resolution condemning the Cabinet of indecisive Premier Nobuyuki Abe, and asked it to resign. Then the Diet adjourned until...
...Premier Abe nervously hurried around to talk with the Emperor and the Grand Keeper of the Imperial Seals. Afterwards Wilfrid Fleisher reported: "The Cabinet apparently has decided to carry on. ... [but] it is believed that the days of the Government are numbered and its downfall is looked for before the Diet reconvenes...
Correspondent Fleisher has been wrong before, but Prince Konoye is a good bet to pick up where the aimless Abe Government leaves off. Premier from 1937 to 1939, he is now the most popular statesman in Japan and probably the only Japanese with enough astuteness and courage to play Mussolini to Hirohito's Vittorio Emanuele. It was he who invented the famous, mystical but so far meaningless slogan: New Order in East Asia. He may find accomplishing it not only New but Large...