Word: dieted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swashbuckling Premier General Senjuro Hayashi, head of Japan's "gold braid" Cabinet of generals and admirals, summarily dissolved the Diet two months ago because the Diet's Minseito (majority) & Seijukai (minority) parties truculently refused to pass one of his pet measures...
CALL IT FREEDOM-Marian Sims-Lippincott ($2.50). Southern romance about a middle-class divorcee who broke herself of ten-year marriage habits on a circumspect male diet...
...this season, particular credit went to Helen Traubel of St. Louis for a powerful-voiced Mary. Arthur Carron sang Philip expressively, looked so little the romantic part that forthright Critic Danton Walker of the Daily News felt his sentence of banishment should have been a bread-&-water diet...
...proclaiming that the Minseito and Seiyukai would get a proper trimming in these elections from the militant little Showakai, Kokumin-domei. and Tohokai parties. Hence it was a considerable surprise last week when Japan went to the polls, gave Premier Hayashi a most resounding electoral slap. Of the 466 Diet seats, more than 400 went to avowed opposition parties, with the moderate Minseito actually losing ground to the rabidly anti-Hayashi Social Mass Party. So bucked up were civilian politicians that they demanded that the Cabinet resign at once, even the Tohokai chiming...
After a consultation with his colleagues, amazingly Premier Hayashi indicated that he would sit tight no matter what Japan's voters thought. With the fighting forces, if not the voters, behind him, this sabre-rattler bellowed: "I hope the new members of the Diet will sacrifice personal interests and serve the higher interests of the nation, thus promoting constitutional politics and fulfilling the great task of assisting the Emperor during the present emergency period...