Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese Diet nervous politicians have also been asking what General Doihara is doing in China. In effect Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, author of Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands on China a generation ago, has been obliged to admit that the Japanese Army has sent General Doihara as its own independent negotiator in the Sino-Japanese diplomatic haggle now being conducted as a repetition of the "demands" maneuver (TIME, Feb. 11). The Japanese Army apparently does not trust the Japanese Foreign Office or Japanese diplomats. With something as big as the Empire's future in China at stake...
That small Caribbean nation, Cuba, in which the United States has always manifested an interest, if not so fraternal an interest as the name "big-brother" implies, is again providing variety in our daily news diet of Roosevelt and the "New Deal." Another of the periodic general strikes has occurred in Cuba, with the usual consequences of disorder and military rule...
...statistics could picture the pallid acres from Georgia to Arkansas, pocked with the burnt stumps of slash pine, gully-gutted, unfertilized; where the whitewash peeled from treeless shacks; where hatchet-faced tenants were not even able to get the three M's-Meal, Molasses and Meat-a diet that nourishes pellagra...
...threats of War unless China accepts Japanese "tutelage." If China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is willing to sell Japan a stranglehold on Chinese trade, finance and defense, Japan will do the handsome thing with an $85,000,000 loan. While Chiang mournfully pondered this offer, the Japanese Diet briskly passed Japan's all-time high in budgets, which gives $318,000,000 or 53% for "defense...
...packs her bags and hopes to sell a penny can-opener of his own invention. Lehmann's ways are unpretentious. She keeps no maid, answers her own telephone, does her own mending. Five years ago she was definitely large. Now 20 Ib. thinner, she watches her diet, never orders dessert although she nibbles a bit at the apple pie which Herr Krause invariably chooses...