Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taste of it in our local WPA and resent to the innermost core of my being this threat to personal freedom and self respect. And what could be more brazen than the frank acknowledgment and the making scientific of a spoils system that smells to high heaven. It is high time we wrested the fate of our citizens from the clutches of the politician and entrusted it to those trained in public administration. Such tactics as those used by Mr. Hurja turn people to the extreme right or to the extreme left...
Month ago he called Franklin Roosevelt a heaven-sent gift to the U. S. people. Last week he announced that he "could not spare the time" to run for President himself, graciously endorsed Governor Alfred Mossman Landon of Kansas as the second best choice. Observers, quick to see the hand of Publisher William Randolph Hearst behind the move, thought the probable split in California's Republican ranks would be more than Governor Merriam bargained...
Bespectacled Emperor Hirohito, the earnest young Son of Heaven, had enough resignations to read last week to give His Majesty eyestrain - 500 in all. His personal military aide-de-camp, famed General Shigeru Honjo, who commanded the Japanese Kwantung Army which swarmed up to seize Manchuria in 1931, resigned last week. So did six lieutenant generals, five major generals, five corps commanders, bevies of War Ministry bureau chiefs and slews of Japanese officers of all the higher ranks.* Thus the Army continued its "expiation" for the Army assassinations of Japanese liberal statesmen (TIME, March 16). But for every...
...Last of the Genro portentously advised His Majesty and withdrew; the Son of Heaven summoned Prince Konoye; the Prince drove from the Imperial Palace to the villa of Saionji; and finally Prince Konoye drove back to the Imperial Palace, where he communicated to the Divine Emperor this startling intimation: "I am unable to accept the task of Premier for I am in great doubt that I could tide the nation over the present crisis...
...these brilliant youngsters the outstanding pair are Japan's Acting Foreign Minister of last week, Mr. Koki Hirota, and his equally cocky friend and protege, Mr. Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassador in Washington. Old Saionji in his infinitely ripe wisdom next advised the Son of Heaven to call young Hirota...