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Word: gime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...December. Sadly has the honest, industrious Seiyukai Leader watched his old ministry gather ill-fame. Tanaka, "the frank, magnanimous, indulgent and unreserved," as his countrymen frequently referred to him, found it hard to believe his "Seiyukai soldiers" could betray him thus. Most crushing denunciation of his régime fell three days before his death, when his right-hand man, Heikichi Ogawa, vice president of Seiyukai, was put to prison, after his bank account showed 2,000,000 illicit yen ($960,000) purported to be derived from promotion of private railways projects while he was Minister of Railways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Untimely Death | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Elaborate, pretentious, built on undrained ground, sinking still beneath its own weight, it is bitterly referred to by many a Mexican as a symbol of the whole Diaz régime-grand in conception, fumbled in execution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The First One | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...sure that the present régime in my country is doomed to failure sooner or later. In fact I am thinking of returning within a year after a stay in Italy, where I know I have the friendship of King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Sad Amanullah | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Voluntary barrenness and reducing cures to rid her miserable body of every ounce of superfluous fat are the greatest crimes a woman can commit under the Fascist régime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Thin Ladies Flayed | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...going to study New York's budget, he said, and agricultural relief would be a first consideration of his régime. He spoke then, probably, as a conscientious executive with an eye only to duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Democracy | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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