Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organized a new Kabuki troupe called the Zenshinza (Forward-Looking Theater), set up shop in a sleek, modern playhouse outside Tokyo, defied tradition by hiring women actors to play female parts and began mixing Western dramas with the Japanese classics. When V-J brought democracy officially to Japan, Democrat Kawarasaki was ready with a full-fledged production of John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (TIME...
...Strapped Democrats. On the last score, at least, no one could criticize the qualification of Secretary-to-be Louis Johnson, whose appointment had made the most powerful job in the Cabinet one of the spoils of politics. A lifelong Democrat, he had never wavered through years of being passed by. Balked of one promised gift when Franklin Roosevelt reached over his head to make Republican Henry Stimson Secretary of War, balked again when Henry Wallace got the White House blessing for Vice President in 1940, Johnson stayed in there, ready to pitch for the party when he was called from...
...Emptiness. German nationalism is growing in Bavaria, and growing fast. What has been called "democratization" is proceeding slowly. Every German political leader with whom I have talked here -Socialist or Christian Democrat or Separatist-acknowledges these two facts at once. The future, not of Bavaria alone but all Germany, and perhaps all Europe, depends heavily on whether the U.S. reacts to these facts with only a shudder, or with intelligence and understanding...
...Standing a stone's throw from the infamous Dachau, where a refugee camp now huddles, I listened to the booming voice of Franz Jilka: "Give us another war!" Jilka is one of three million Sudeten Germans driven from Czechoslovakia after the last war. He is an old Social Democrat, 64, grizzled, tough and thirsting for revenge. "Would I fight!" he exclaimed. "Give me the chance! All three million of us are waiting for the war-that is the only way we can get back our land. Give us the arms-and we will drive the Russians from Berlin before...
...Split 20 to 20 between Democrats and Republicans, the Massachusetts Senate was deadlocked for 22 days and 114 ballots over the election of a presiding officer, finally compromised by electing a Democrat for 1949, a Republican...