Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II the Mitsuis lost most of their shipping and much of their physical manufacturing plant. They could recoup that-but they could not recoup Allied victory. First, they dissolved their holding company. But that was only a superficial shedding. The real core of Mitsui power and solidarity was the family constitution; each male Mitsui, on coming of age, swore sacred Shinto oaths to uphold the Mitsui constitution and further the family interest...
Last week the Mitsuis voluntarily dissolved that core. They abolished the family constitution and started plans for liquidating the family holdings. The plans must have General MacArthur's approval, but it seemed last week that he would approve them if they contained no tricky loopholes...
Though Muster believed they had never amounted to more than 2% of the U.F.W.A.'s 42,000 membership, Party-liners and hangers-on were well enough entrenched by last month's convention to run the locals in New York, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles. With that core of sure-fire delegates they had rammed through their own slate of officers, headed by Secretary-Treasurer Max Perlow, long-time veteran of New York Communist-front organizations...
...which demands action in concluding peace treaties not only with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland, but also with Austria, which is close to the center of the total continental problem. It is a policy which demands action in arriving at decisions for a unified Germany, where the real core of Europe's recuperation resides, and where the problem must be considered as a whole rather than in four airtight compartments in four zones of military occupation...
...core was a drum-tight control of the Negro vote. For as Memphians reflect: "The nigger doesn't vote, he is voted." Thus, at any time, day or night, year in, year out, whenever Ed Crump pulled the lever of his political slot machine, he hit the jackpot-a clear majority of 40,000 to 60,000 votes, enough not only to inundate Memphis but to control Tennessee as well...