Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese Democracy chiefly consists of three major political parties: the "National Political" Minseito (majority), "Friendly Political" Seiyukai (minority) and Shakai Taishuto or "Social Mass Party." The first two live almost entirely upon nation-wide local graft, plus contributions from large Japanese corporations and family groups, and these two parties completely dominate the Imperial Diet. The Army & Navy have now decided that wealthy Japanese must be fleeced by semi-confiscatory taxation for the glory of the Empire, and that this glory must not be dimmed by any objections from the working class, the class from which the great majority of Japanese...
...annual exhibition of the Art League of Springfield, Mass., a local, conservative painter named Henry J. P. Billings* sent a strangely affecting picture, Opus No. 1. It was accepted. Artist Billings promptly got some publicity by resigning from the League. His explanation: Opus No. 1 was the result of a deliberate attempt to paint the worst picture, in drawing, design, color and technique, that his ingenuity could devise. "Juries," said Joker Billings, "should be selected who have background enough to distinguish good from bad in modern...
Threatened last week with "meet and proper" disciplinary action by his union (Local 802 of the Associated Musicians of Greater New York) was Dr. Walter Damrosch, venerable symphony conductor. Reason: He had charged that the union has created unemployment by trying to maintain high wages, that there are only 2,000 good musicians among its 15,000 members...
Into Chinatown last autumn went an organizer for lively International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, before long organized in Joe Shoong's factory the union's first Chinese local. A National Labor Relations Board election in January established it as sole bargaining agent. Negotiations started. Two weeks later Joe Shoong sold the factory to his foreman Joe Sun and another Chinese. The union thought he had acted in bad faith and its members walked...
Frank S. Hopkins, 30, reporter for the Baltimore Sun. He holds degrees from Willam and Mary and Columbia, and is interested in federal, state, and local agencies of public welfare and relief...