Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mostly of peasant blood, the Radical-Militarists want Japan's great capitalists and its moderately prosperous middle-class squeezed for the benefit of its farmers and fishermen, who since the Machine Age have been grinding out their lives in increasingly abject toil. Thus every Japanese businessman scanned with excruciating qualms every phrase of the Hirota Cabinet's first declaration of policy when it belatedly appeared last week. Its language was high-flown. "With a sense of awe and deep responsibility," preambled the Premier, "I have obeyed the Imperial command to organize a Cabinet after the recent extraordinary affair...
...South Seas. The idea inflamed his café friends. Somebody pulled wires in the Ministry of Public Instruction and brought out a fine document authorizing Gauguin to make an artistic expedition to the Colony of Tahiti on behalf of the Republic of France-at no salary. A benefit performance was staged at the Théâtre des Arts for Gauguin and the equally impoverished Paul Verlaine. Artist Gauguin decorated the théâtre with his pictures; Verlaine, Maurice Maeterlinck and Charles Morice wrote special plays; Stéphane Mallarmé recited Poe's Raven in French...
...choice is now up to France-to give Hitler's pacifistic proposals the benefit of the doubt, or to continue her old policy of suppression and make war a certainty. A. G. Hills...
Unfortunately France will have "to give Hitler's pacifistic proposals the benefit of the doubt," because the desertion of her cause by Britain has rendered any other course of action suicidal. A world which can still put faith in the pious words of Europe's champion treaty-breaker will give Germany the twenty-five year breathing-spell she needs so urgently, while M. Francon's question-how does the presence of 90,000 troops in the Rhineland serve the cause of peace-goes unanswered...
...Council only performs the report-making function above reproach. Its administration of undergraduate affairs has been marked by inefficiency which well-considered plans and rules could have avoided. It has failed to develop its function as "safety valve" to the point where it is exerting, the greatest possible benefit to the College and the student body...