Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...putting on his shoes, not to mention countless poses of the Premier buzzing about Tokyo in full Admiral's regalia. Such antics have their use. While Premier Okada has monopolized the spotlight, Finance Minister Takahashi has been able to wage quietly and not altogether without success a grim battle for budgetary economy against War Minister Hayashi and Navy Minister Osumi. Though the Japanese budget last week was fantastically unbalanced by $88,000,000, the Government nonetheless had Japanese essentials well enough in hand to be worried about its stand on the Divine Emperor...
...Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was lukewarm, Senator Robinson stepped in, took on the unpopular task of championing the World Court for Franklin Roosevelt. Father Coughlin, Huey Long and William Randolph Hearst beat the kettledrums against the Court. Senator Robinson fought valiantly but vainly (TIME, Feb. 11). Grim and glum, he received from Franklin Roosevelt (who laughed off the misadventure) a note thanking him for his "very able and very honorable fight...
...grim old Bailey Court month ago Manchester was sentenced to nine months in jail for the "fraud" of pawning jewels tied up beyond his reach in the family estate by his late shrewd mother. Her wisdom has permitted Manchester time & again to spend all he can get his hands on and more, go bankrupt, and then start afresh on the next instalment handed him by trustees who have absolute discretion...
...more appropriate reading for Memorial Day in Cambridge could be found, surely, than this war novel which so undeniably approximates the claims of an extensive prepublication critical fanfare. Even for him who does not go in for horrors as such there is something very gratifying in reading this grim, well-told, and certainly convincing piece of military muckraking while, after the usual marches and counter-marches, stray buglers of the Junior American Legion Band gather under windows and drive all peaceable citizens into an anti-militarist frenzy. This was the reviewer's experience, and it no doubt gave "Paths...
...cent. By last week, however, U.S. sugar, having climbed back to the highest level since 1928 (2.7?) looked sweeter than it had for a decade. And though nearly every sugar man had some grudge against the new order, recovery was largely the result of the Government's grim efforts to put the industry in a strait jacket. The world price is still less than...