Word: ja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next morning he had decided to take over himself, had started a police roundup of Arias' henchmen. At 10 the Cabinet met in the Balboa police station to form a new Government. As President it picked Ernesto Jaén Guardia, who was sworn in at 1 p.m. But after two members of the old Cabinet were arrested, Ernesto decided that he did not choose to rule, and by the end of the afternoon Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia was Panama's boss. All these changes were constitutional...
...Norwegians tried to rescue them, got into a fight with German marines. Men threw stones and women nailed with umbrellas. Finally one of the hostages, Harold Roenneberg, appealed for order, ended his appeal with "Long Live the King!" The crowd then stood bareheaded and sang the national anthem, Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet...
...Ja, vi elsker dette landet...
Such a policy would allow Japan to pull many troops out of China altogether and push them toward the coveted Indies. Ja pan's southward push continued hard on the economic front, with the signing in Tokyo of a trade treaty with French Indo-China. It clearly suggested Japan's idea of a New Order in Asia...
...Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye. Thimble Theatre's first cast consisted of gawky Heroine Olive Oyl and her dimwit brother Castor. They straggled along for ten years before Castor Oyl one day in 1929 encountered Popeye on a dock. Cried Castor: "Hey, are you a sailor?" Said Popeye dourly: "Ja think I was a cowboy...