Word: behest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese politicians, more fearful than ever of a military coup d'etat, tried to save the Empire's parliamentary system last week by yielding abjectly to War Minister Sadao Araki, reshuffling some Cabinet posts at the military clique's behest, appropriating all the money demanded by the fighting services and nastily adjourning the Diet before worse should befall. The Opposition (Minseito) Party, not daring to oppose, wailed a public prediction through the lips of Deputy Gotaro Ogawa that Japan's occupation of Manchuria will soon have cost 300,000,000 yen ($100,000,000 current rate)?a vast...
...gratitude does not in any way alter my conviction that she [Madame Zenatello] has been an untrustworthy and unfaithful agent." Husband August Mesritz gave details: "Not only did Maria Gay treat my wife as a puppet to be let out of a box or put in again at her behest but she seemed to live in deadly fear that my wife would become on intimate terms with the Metropolitan management or with other opera stars . . . constantly warned her that the people with whom she came in contact were scheming and dishonest and that no business affairs should ever be discussed...
...help 600 small liberal arts colleges in the U. S., President Hoover became a committee-member last September of the Liberal Arts College Movement, to which 235 small colleges belong (TIME, Sept. 14). At the behest of Senator Simeon Davison Fess, onetime (1907-17) president of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio), he agreed to join in a radio appeal for the group. Last week, along with Speechmaker John Huston Finley of the New York Times, Director Charles Riborg Mann of the American Council of Education and President Albert Norman Ward of Western Maryland College, Chairman...
...quarters last week remindful of William Jennings Bryan, "free silver," "16 to i" and "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!" In Colombia, harassed President Olaya Herrera decided that his country's burdens are too great to bear on a gold basis. Congress at his behest rushed through legislation similar to Britain's, barred gold exports from Colombia, barred even the exchange of Colombian pesos into dollars. Further south, President Terra of Uruguay declared that by meeting her interest obligations abroad in gold "Uruguay
...father rose, with his old friend Grandzsa by his side. Punica Ratchitch continued to fire and my father fell, together with Grandzsa and another Croat named Peruar. Taken to a hospital my father died a few weeks later, both from his wounds and from poison administered at the behest of the same men who instigated the massacre by Punica Ratchitch...