Word: junior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Martial law was declared in Japan after fanatical junior Army officers assassinated three of Japan's leading statesmen (TIME, March 9). As a sign that martial law continues, the Divine Emperor and Son of Heaven, who prefers mufti, has been wearing nothing but military uniforms ever since. By his command an Extraordinary Court-Martial with unprecedented powers was set up under the presidency of General Count Juichi Terauchi, the new War Minister, to try the assassins. They were denied the right of being defended by lawyers, their trial was secret. Seventeen death sentences were furtively announced in the dead...
...performances in France in 15 months. After the War she appeared in vaudeville, announced her retirement in 1930 after the death of Mrs. Bierbower. Elsie Janis has since written for the cinema, performed on the radio, helped produce a revue (New Faces), married a salesman 16 years her junior. Last week Miss Janis, now 47, an nounced her intention to carry out literally Christ's command, Go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor (Matthew...
...missing three questions in Transport, two in Business & Finance, one each in Science, National Affairs, Foreign News. I am curious to know how this compares with the average score. HUGO SCHWENKER Sauk City, Wis. Median scores on latest TIME test: college students-53 ; senior high school students-44; junior high school students...
...Constitution now exacted from teachers in 23 States and the District of Columbia. Since no other U. S. professional class is thus singled out to affirm its patriotism, teachers have keenly resented their oath as a special indignity. Warmly cheered was National Director Thomas Warrington Gosling of the American Junior Red Cross when he cried: "Compulsory oaths of allegiance are flagrant examples of dictatorship...
Conventioneers were promised prizes for the largest orchestra, the orchestra which had traveled the greatest distance. Likewise this week there were to be banjo, mandolin, hillbilly, Hawaiian, junior, electro-phonic and popularity contests. To be seen and heard in Minneapolis were the most famed virtuosos of fretted instrumentalism, some of them playing on instruments worth thousands of dollars. Tenor Banjoist Albert Bellson played, for the first time anywhere, Bach's famed Chaconne, which is ordinarily a sombre, magnificent violin showpiece. Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program...