Word: fists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister Baron Kijuro Shidehara and other members of the Wakatsuki Cabinet in Japan. They realize that Japan, a potent member of the League of Nations, must keep in Europe's good graces. But ever since the fall of the Tanaka Government in 1929, last exponent of the mailed fist in China, Japanese militarists have been gunning for pacific Baron Shidehara. The execution of Captain Nakamura was what they have been waiting for. Last week General Jiro Tamon, commandant at Mukden,* and other Japanese officers simply took matters into their own hands and acted without Cabinet authority. Baron Shidehara...
George White's Scandals is lightsome, for the most part pleasing entertainment. Producer White enlivened proceedings on the opening night by staging an impromptu fist fight in the theatre lobby with his librettist Lew Brown...
...landers had tasted economic freedom, a plebiscite would be held which would ac cept or reject complete political inde pendence. And Hoover. Not until Henry Lewis Stimson went to Manila in 1927 was much done to prepare the Philippines for independence. Governor General Leonard Wood ruled with a mailed fist, antagonized the natives, scoffed the idea of ever letting the islands go. Governor Stimson took a different tack, emphasized the necessity of economic growth before there could be any talk of freedom. Governor Davis has largely followed the Stimson policy, with good results. Local government is virtually...
...Dictator who knows when to retreat is square, swart Carlos Ibanez, the President who has held the reins of Chilean Government in his fist for four years. Times were bad in Chile last week. The Government was in grave financial difficulties, a committee of British and U. S. bankers was expected to reorganize once more the country's finances. Santiago teemed with discontent. In Buenos Aires the Argentine police had raided the rooms of one Pedro Leon Ugalde, who narrowly failed to bring off a Chilean revolution at Conception several months ago. As a matter of courtesy they announced...
...this rallying cry Scotch M. P.'s of the "Clydeside Group"? hurled themselves upon the Sergeant-at-Arms' parliamentary posse. Began a serious fist fight...