Word: organizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emperor an Organ? Of the total of 466 Diet seats nearly all were contested by machine candidates of the two large and wealthy Japanese parties, the Seiyukai and the Minseito. Many of these candidates neither knew nor cared what the issues, if any, were. This astounding state of affairs existed despite the fact that there had been no Japanese election since 1932. In theory the poll last week should have settled the paramount issue of Eastern Asia, whether Japanese expansion is to rage on through China at staggering cost or whether the Japanese people disapprove the extravagant and risky militarism...
...produced three books on the Japanese Imperial Constitution and the status of the Emperor. That status, in one word, is divine. Dr. Minobe made the mistake of adorning it with other words and blaspheming His Majesty to the extent of writing that the Son of Heaven is "the highest organ of the nation...
...Seiyukai candidates in these circumstances to campaign against the Government mainly with the charge that it had not sufficiently punished a man for writing that His Majesty is the supreme organ of the Japanese State was arrant bluff & nonsense-even in Japan. No Japanese can successfully reduce to writing what the status of the Emperor is, any more than a Christian can be precise on the status of God. As the votes were being counted last week, two Japanese armed with a letter apparently signed by a magistrate got past Dr. Minobe's police guards, chased the savant...
...readers were too dazed to proceed. But the gist of M. de la Marti's plan was to establish a "World Record Service . . . for carrying out competitions in all fields of economic activity, with new and hitherto unknown stimulus, and with large cash prizes. . . . The journal or official organ will be the central supporting beam for the success of the competitions and announcements, and the financial part of the enterprise. Its circulation will be enormous. ... To facilitate the work of the World Record Service a HOUSE OF NATIONS will be founded in every country. . . . Here concise accounts will...
Died. Clara Butt, 62, onetime milkmaid who became Great Britain's most popular contralto and a Dame Commander of the British Empire; after a long illness; in Oxford, England. Six feet, three inches tall and equipped with a voice so powerful that neither Albert Hall's organ nor the Coldstream Guards could drown her notes,, she was a favorite with royalty, performing many times before Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George...