Word: ja
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ja, they had killed the other man. the Prohibition agent, in a boiler room like this one. That was two years ago at the Rising Sun Brewery in Elizabeth. Ja, he had tended boiler there, too. He saw it all. The Prohibition man, he had ten bullets in him when they rolled him over and straightened him out?ten. He heard that some of the men in the gang were dead now, too. A fellow named Weissman out in Kansas City. Another in Philadelphia. Another in Atlantic City. So now some men come to the ice' plant last Tuesday looking...
Japan's general elections come Feb. 20. The mere fact that onetime-Premier Wakatsuki called on Prince Saionji was enough to start rumors in Tokyo that the party of peace was making a strong bid for a return to power. Since October no Japanese paper has dared oppose Ja pan's militarists. Last week an article appeared in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi signed "A Member of the House of Peers." No one denied that it came from the brush of Baron Kijuro Shidehara, Foreign Minister in the Wakatsuki Cabinet, forced out by the militarists in December. Said this peer...
...plebiscite over 50% of the qualified voters in Prussia (roughly 13,500,000 citizens) had to scrawl JA on their ballots. The tactics of Chancellor Brüning and Premier Braun of Prussia were not to urge citizens to vote against it, but to urge citizens to stay away from the polls altogether. They made but one mistake. So serious did Herren Brüning & Braun consider the situation that they made use of a new emergency press law to force every German newspaper to print a manifesto against the referendum on its front page, in large type, without comment...