Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government also had something to do with springing the "revelations" concerning U. S. Minister Johnson. To the Japanese masses these shocks were real last week, but to Japanese statesmen they were convenient. Premier Saito, who was not assassinated last August, is now trying to jam through the Japanese Diet which recently reconvened (TIME, Jan. 2) bills covering Government expenditures so stupendous that the Japanese people will only accept them if they believe Japan's very life to be at stake...
...came into power there was a great deal of unorganized Fascism in Japan. Ninety or more secret organizations preached bloodthirsty Nationalism. Fascist ideals of state capitalism were popular with Japanese businessmen. Since then has come a gradual reaction. Although the God of Elections had 33 members of the Imperial Diet in his new party last week (reputedly purchased for bribes of 5,000 to 10.000 yen each) the Japanese Press was quick to minimize the bloc's importance. Wrote the Tokyo Asahi...
Meanwhile the 64th session of the Diet, opened by Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo this week, faced the most colossal public debt ever incurred by Japan: nearly seven billion yen ($3,500,000,000 at par, $1,400,000,000 at current exchange...
...typical t.b. girl, reported Miss Nicholson "is not the girl who gads about drinking, smoking, and concentrating on wild parties until the small hours of the morning. She is not a diet faddist, nor does she overstrain herself in athletics. Neither is she a down-trodden factory worker from the slums. She is apt to be the third in a family of five children, one of whom died fairly young. Her father is engaged in some form of manufacturing or mechanical industry and her mother does not work outside the home. The family's income is in the neighborhood...
...rats at the University of Toronto, their alma mater. Last week they were in Manhattan to tell missionaries, doctors and dentists that they have been able to produce or prevent tooth decay at will in practically any rat, by regulating the amount of phosphorus and Vitamin D in the diet. Now they are confirming their work on 450 Ontario children. The children get their phosphorus, vitamin and calcium, which they also require, in milk, fresh vegetables, fish oils, irradiated foods...