Word: eta
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...according to the familiar prewar stage directions, there were certainly unexpected faces in several of the leading roles. Tetsu Katayama, the new Socialist Premier, is the Presbyterian grandson of a Shinto priest. Jiichiro Matsumoto, vice chairman of the Diet's upper house, is one of Japan's Eta* "untouchables." The new Cabinet Secretary, smart Socialist Strategist Suehiro Nishio, is a former steel worker...
...feudal times Japan's Eta were a semi-slave class of undetermined origin entrusted with the tanning, butchering of animals and other traditionally degrading tasks. Although legal restrictions against them were removed in 1871, Japan's 3,000,000 Eta are still social outcasts, generally live by themselves in ghettolike settlements...
...deep-scated distrust of the University community toward so newfaugted a creation as the silver screen, and his own inexperience with a cap-and-gown audience. To help him during the first year of business, he hired a prominent undergraduate as floor manager, Roy H. Booth, Jr. '28, Pi Eta president and baseball team luminary, and, between the two of them, the U.T. got off to a roaring start...
Ballyhoo number one, announced yesterday, is a male beauty contest, sponsored by HDC to attract attention to their forthcoming production of "Winterset." Miss Chili Williams, HDC announced yesterday, will select "Mr. Harvard of 1946" at a contest tomorrow afternoon outside of the Pi Eta Club, corner Boylston and Mt. Auburn Streets...
...judging. The feminine trio is expected to arrive at the Square at 4 o'clock. A modest parade of two automobiles and a truck will convey the actresses from Radcliffe down to the Yard, and thence will wend its way among the Houses, winding up outside the Pi Eta Club at 4:30 or 4:45 o'clock...