Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Satsuma Empress, In the new Cabinet Baron Yamamoto, the Home Minister, is a Satsuma. In Japan it is an axiom that "The Home Ministry makes the election." Why did the Son of Heaven consent to a Satsuma in this key post? Court gossip had it last week that Emperor HirohitO' and his ancient adviser Prince Saionji, 83, had both been swayed by another adviser who is the Son of Heaven's close friend, Count Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal-a Satsuma...
...Warsaw everyone knows that Poland will go to war the moment any nation menaces her corridor to the sea. The greatest living Pole restated this axiom of his nation in Manhattan last week. Not for 13 years has Ignace Jan Paderewski been Premier of Poland. He and Poland's present Dictator, eccentric Marshal Pilsudski, are on barely civil terms. But every Pole backed Pianist Paderewski when he exclaimed...
...keeping the axe hidden is that her opponents could not Bear the cutting insult which would result from such uncalled for display. "There is too much to be risked for so little gain in taking the Axe out of the vault this year." Such a statement is almost an axiom. Whosever vault it is, the reaxion of California would be more than keen. Would men not spare their opponents' feelings, the situation might become un-Bearable...
...first year's net earning of Ludington Line, plane-per-hour passenger service between New York, Philadelphia & Washington. Moreover, it was the first profit ever shown by a major air service operated without mail contract or subsidy, a profit made in the face of a virtual axiom that no line could make money in passenger business alone...
...point involving discussion whether any professional branch of the Arts deserves aid or should exist solely on its merits. Almost an axiom in contrast with self-sufficiency is the fact that the Theatre to produce consistently artistic work must be independent of financial strain...