Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think the time to be quite opportune when a movement should be started looking towards an award of at least a million dollars in cash to anyone or any unit or group of our Expeditionary Force who will capture either Mr. Hitler or Mr. Hirohito...
...felt the lash of the Gestapo and the agonies of the concentration camp; they have been despoiled of loved ones, possessions, home, country and citizenship. These people are pledged by every sacred oath, by every claim of human decency and dignity, to a war to the death upon Hitler, Hirohito, and all they represent...
...Latin America. Agent Matheson, who had gone to school in Hawaii, Peking, Shanghai, Rangoon, Tokyo, the Universities of Nevada, California and Mexico, knew the Japs well. In 1937, charged the FBI, they hired him to spy on the U.S. Communist Party. Boastful of his long friendship with Emperor Hirohito, he had taught philosophy at New York City's Queens College. As chief hack for Living Age, the Japs paid Matheson $500 a month and expenses...
...Like Hirohito of Japan, Emperor Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela XXVI is a scion of the sun. Unlike Hirohito, the legitimate heir to the golden throne of the Incas has offered to remain neutral in World War II. But one day last spring the Emperor's neutrality became strained. In fact, Huaraca XXVI got hopping mad. For continental defense purposes Ecuador had offered to lend the U.S. use of a plot of "sacred land" donated to the Emperor by the Santa Elena City Council-the very spot where the "Only Inca" had intended to build a summer palace...
Corn cribs, set up on street corners in small Kansas towns, bulged with old phonograph records. Men in overalls, streaming through factory gates in Indianapolis, dropped records into barrels. Open-mouthed caricatures of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito on Manhattan's Times Square made inviting receptacles to throw discs into. From Maine to California 1,500,000 members of the American Legion and the women's American Legion Auxiliary rang doorbells, telephoned, dashed about in cars and trucks. Out from attics, cellars, closets came dusty black records, bearing such nostalgic labels as Dardanella, Barney Google, Cohen on the Telephone...