Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...session of the Japanese Diet's Budget Committee, the War Minister was faced with this question: "Is it true that our Minister of Communications, His Excellency Takejiro Tokonami, took a bribe of 500,000 yuan in 1928 from the Manchurian War Lord Chang Hsueh-liang...
...There will be no war while I am in office," cocky Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota recently told the Diet...
...after day in the Diet both lean, rheumatic War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi and burly, big-fisted Navy Minister Mineo Osumi hammered away at the thesis that no matter what happens, no matter how remote the danger of war, Japanese Deputies must vote nearly half of the Empire's revenue to the fighting services, now and for an indefinite period hereafter. Pounding with his small fist, War Minister Hayashi cried: "The Army has no intention of stopping now in Manchukuo!" Pounding with his large fist, Navy Minister Osumi boomed: "We have no intention of embarking on a naval race...
...from his seat in the Diet in Tokyo stood Foreign Minister Koki Hirota last week. "I am confident," said he, "that while I am in office there will...
Mascagni's one flash came when he was 26. A prize was offered for a one-act opera and the impoverished teacher, tired of a macaroni diet, worked at white heat for eight days and nights until he had completed Cavalleria Rusticana. On that lusty, full-blooded music he has lived ever since. He conducted it in the U. S. 32 years ago. The visit was notorious. Though his contract called for $4,000 per week, he had constant trouble with his creditors. He ranted at Manhattan's noise, Manhattan's food. He had his biggest tantrum...