Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official Japanese news censorship, one of the tightest in the world on political items, last month loosened up to pass this most candid-story-of-the-year in Tokyo's great newsorgan Nichi Nichi...
...like the original French Revolution. Last week in many lands grave heads were wondering what plain Jean Frenchman, a million strong, may now be starting with his spontaneous and uncontrolled strikes (TIME, June 8, et seq.), his gay singing of Red songs in the anxious streets of Paris, his candid nose-thumbing, half amused and half contemptuous, at new Premier Blum of the Third Republic...
...candid opinion of most male members of the new Cabinet its three females seemed last week bores, if not frumps; but these Radical Socialist and Socialist males continued strong for "The Red Marquise" and her potent friend, Minister of Defense Edouard Daladier, called "The Bull." Although almost as painful a subject as the new Minister of National Education's song about the flag, the new Minister of Defense's hospitable Marquise Rouge was last week a key to understanding the new Cabinet. Its political supporters, 381 Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists, are not such austere champions...
Even as Haile Selassie chatted in French with his guests, his doom as an Emperor seemed in course of being sealed by Orator Anthony Eden, who told his constituents that "The League finds its authority weakened" and that Geneva must now act "in the spirit of candid realism." Far from suggesting any anti-Italian or pro-Ethiopian action of a virile nature. Orator Eden announced for the British Government this unpretentious objective: "We must at this time maintain the League of Nations in existence." In quarters close to Haile Selassie it was said that he was being pressed to quit...
...Heaven's portals and Hell gate because he was "neither spirit nor spirk," John Middleton Murry floats in a half-world of his own. Most derided, most vilified man of letters in contemporary England, his respectable reputation as a critic has been overshadowed by his notoriety as a candid friend. His enemies cannot forgive him for having been the husband-of the late Katherine Mansfield, the intimate friend of the late D. H. Lawrence, and making literary capital out of both relationships. Much of his recent writing they have found unpleasantly autobiographical; last week they could take a look...