Word: founder
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...days, Japanese jingoism centered around the strident, state-supported cult of Shinto. The big holiday for nationalist noisemaking was Feb. 11, known as kigensetsu (Foundation Day), solemnly determined by later scholars as the day in 660 B.C. when Japan's founder, Emperor Jimmu, great-great-great-grandson of the Sun Goddess, ascended the throne with the divinely sanctioned mission of making Japan "the center of the world...
This abuse of force served to weld the solidarity of students and faculty. Pictures of Franco and Jose Antonio (founder of the Falange) were destroyed...
...adults with the result that there is little cute or faked about their performances. Though Alyosha Lyorsky acts with great charm, Young Gorky is the least convincing of the children. He is too often posed. Sometimes, when he should apparently be silently storing up observations as befits the future founder of Socialist Realism, he just stares. Similarly, S. Tikhonravov, as the anarchist lodger, falls victim to the Soviet preferences for gallant poses...
...Saudi talks produced the kind of solid physical supports without which the Eisenhower doctrine would founder in its offer of military support against Communist aggression in the Middle East. "There was agreement," said one U.S. official, "on everything we discussed." Beyond concord on aims and future pursuits within the framework of the U.N., the two countries agreed that 1) the U.S. will continue to use the strategically important Dhahran Air Field in Saudi Arabia for the next five years, in return for which 2) the U.S. will provide economic assistance and, over a five-year stretch, some $50 million...
...Francis A. Johnson, 48, vice president of Endicott Johnson, became fourth president of the 63-year-old shoe company, succeeding his cousin. Charles F. Johnson Jr., 69, who became chairman of the board. Frank Johnson, grandson of the firm's founder, George F., and son of its second president, George W., began at the bottom as a tennis-sneaker worker in 1931, eventually managed two of the company's three upstate New York plants, served nine years as vice president of the flourishing family business (1956 net: $2,771,158), which is now the second biggest U.S. manufacturer...