Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan's rubber-stamp Diet last week heard its new Premier, Fascist-minded Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, make some unorthodox admissions: 1) Chinese resistance was formidable; 2) in conquered territory Japanese troops controlled only cities and communications lines; 3) the Japanese Army will have to remain in China for a long time to come...
...farther Japanese troops push into China, the poorer grow the folks at home. To Japanese army leaders the solution is obvious-soak Japan's few rich even harder. To do so, the army wants to invoke Article 11 of the National Mobilization Act passed by the last Diet. This article makes it possible not only to limit industrial profits, but to direct how they should be used...
...EMPLOYMENT SHOWS DECLINE (WPA) . . . TEACHING TOLERANCE A MAJOR PROBLEM IN 1939 (Office of Education) . . . ELECTION SCHEDULED AT ARAGON-BALDWIN COTTON MILLS (NLRB) . . . IMPORTANCE OF RIBOFLAVIN IN HUMAN DIET (Public Health Service...
...Stock stuck to his guns. In the many seasons since then he has made himself a reputation as one of the topflight U. S. conductors. Genial Frederick Stock prefers, and conducts best, the works of the German romantics, but he gives his audience a more varied and balanced musical diet than any other U. S. conductor except, perhaps, Boston's Sergei Koussevitzky...
...statesman to the House of Mitsui. Five years later he was named Baron Masuda. He took to collecting paintings, sculpture and pottery, devoted himself to the cult of chanoyu (Japanese tea ceremony). A heavy eater and drinker in his younger days, he developed stomach trouble, had to watch his diet. He kept a cow and whatever his cow ate Masuda would eat, including grass. When a neighbor recommended globefish as a particular delicacy, he offered some to his cow (who loved eels and herring). The cow refused and so did Masuda...