Word: masses
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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...
...Home Affairs, is fiery Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu. When deputies demanded that the posters be taken down he stormed at these representatives of the Japanese people as though they were schoolboys meddling on a warship's bridge. However, after 73-year-old Mr. Isoo Abe, leader of the Social Mass Party, had had his jaw broken by ruffians and retired to bed, Admiral Suetsugu permitted the police to give deputies opposed to the bill some protection, and the more inflammatory posters were pasted over with milder ones. To prove that His Imperial Majesty's Government was not asking anything...
...Soviet Union, Elizabeth Hawes believes in "style," a quality in a dress which enables its purchaser to wear it happily for three years. Style changes about every seventh year. On the other hand, the fashion world is a dizzy merry-go-round of superficial changes which enable mass manufacturers to sell cheap, ill-fitting, flimsy garments by the million...
Instructors too often do not present sufficiently complete course reviews, leaving the student "hopelessly involved in a mass of facts and ideas," according to the Bureau's report. Cramming is resorted to as a "final, desperate measure...
...Yellow River barrier and press on to Sian, their next objective, the magnificent month-long resistance by the ill-equipped Chinese armies ranks as a high-spot of the entire war. Chief factor in their success has been the employment of a new strategy-instead of retreating en masse before a Japanese front attack, the Chinese now split up into large-sized guerilla contingents, harass the Japanese at widely scattered points along the front. The Japanese have been forced to fan out their estimated 100,000 men in their Yellow River force along a 450-mile front, have been unable...