Word: chimneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Kiyoshi Tanabe won fame and a strike for fellow factory employes by sitting grimly on a factory chimney for 129 hours, disregarding all the blandishments of the Tokyo Police Force to coax him down (TIME, Dec. 1). Last week 200 employes of Japan Dyeing & Weaving Works went out on strike because of the discharge of a fellow workman. The dyers and weavers remembered the November success of Chimney Sitter Tanabe, determined to emulate him. However, not a single striking dyer could be found who would volunteer to sit on the Weaving Works high chimney. This difficulty was solved...
Days and nights passed. The striking weavers starved in their warehouse, the Amalgamated Printer sat on his chimney. Chimney Sitter Tanabe's 129 hour record was passed. Still the hardhearted owners of Japan Dyeing & Weaving Works did not relent. The strikers had forgotten that the real reason Chimney Sitter Tanabe won his case in November was that the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, was scheduled to pass beneath that particular chimney. It is illegal, it is sacrilege for any Japanese to look down on the Son of Heaven...
...President's son Allan, home from Harvard Business School, officiated in the distribution of presents and gimcracks from a huge star-topped tree. Next morning the Hoovers, old and young, were at the breakfast table in the State Dining Room when a sudden jingling of bells up the chimney produced a hush of surprise. While Peggy Anne and Herbert III watched in pop-eyed amazement, a round, red-cheeked, flesh-&-blood Santa Claus with a heavy toy pack stepped out on the hearth, approached them...
...next he sat there, with the banzais of the unemployed rising faintly to his ears. Police and factory owners paid little attention. From Yokohama came a message: Emperor Hirohito would return to Tokyo at the week's end, would almost certainly pass the Tanabe-topped chimney on his way to the palace. Instantly the removal of Chimney Sitter Tanabe became of vital importance. The Emperor of Japan is accounted divine, the Son of Heaven. For any one to look down on him is not only a crime but, worse than that, a sacrilege...
Police shouted threats through megaphones. Kiyoshi sat on his chimney. Friends attempted to hoist food to him by kites and the police cut the string. Kiyoshi sat on his chimney. Police threatened to light a fire under the chimney. Kiyoshi gritted his teeth and continued to sit on his chimney. Police sent up a tasty fish stew, flavored with sleep-inducing drugs in the hope that the famished Kiyoshi would partake of it, fall off. Finally the owners of the factory, realizing that for the honor of Tokyo Kiyoshi must come down, agreed to reinstate the discharged workmen. Police screamed...