Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole Charlestown affair is unfortunate. While the police have a presentable case on their handling of the riot, they and the courts carried their jobs to illogical extremes. Both of these latter developments should merit careful review. But there is one important indication which stands forth from the welter of confused comment; not only the police, but also the rieters must be taught to consider riots and freedom of speech in their proper perapective. Let the Committee use their findings to achieve this purpose...
...charges of having sold Imperial Rayon stock to themselves and friends below the market price. The trail of corruption wound into the Ministry of Finance and to the Vice Minister himself, Hideo Kuroda. But Kuroda, a career man, not a politician, was a member of the First Order of Merit and hence above suspicion. The Government was obliged to ask and get the Emperor's permission to prosecute him. The police called meritorious Hideo, sat him down for questioning, locked him in a cell, arrested four of his underlings...
...small funds into a few large ones. This is like putting all one's eggs in one basket. It would be well enough if anyone could devise an even reasonably satisfactory system of selection. But when a few men are chosen at intellectual random while other of almost equal merit are shut out entirely, the chances of mistakes in choice are overwhelmingly great...
...Penner and a unidentified blonde with nice legs are, according to the bill boards, and added attraction. These incurable followers of Penner will not be daunted by his appearance in the cinema, but skeptics as to his merit will ponder whether to classify him as moron or an imbecile. Mr. Penner does not profit by his venture in Hollywood. All in the all the afternoon was pretty much of a loss, for it was not warm enough outside for the cooling system of the theatre to be appreciated...
Then comes a stage show the more to weary the spectator. The "International Revue," which begins with little girls dressed in shamrocks singing, strangely enough, "The Campbells are Coming," continues through a series of international scenes of varying merit ending up with a really good chorus doing a gypsy dance. The merry maestros of the Metropolitan however must needs ruin the effect by bringing out two gentlemen on tux pants and pajama tops to do a rather poor and conventionalized series of acrobatics. They are then followed in their efforts by a half hour with a company of Japanese jugglers...