Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scapegoat. Last week Tokyo censors released the news that last year 6,900 Japanese had to be arrested as "Communist suspects." Things have gone so wrong that the Reds seized were found to include young men & women of high Tokyo society: three daughters of millionaires, the daughters of a peer and a fashionable surgeon, several sons of generals and bankers, a socialite clerk of the Foreign Office, six junior naval officers (promptly court martialed), two professors-one from the Imperial University of Tokyo, the other from the Imperial University of Kyoto-and Toshio Shibata whose father is Chief Secretary...
Famed was he for large-scale philanthropies: free medical service to indigent thousands, a hospital ship plying Japan's Inland Sea, a Better Farming Society. He was an ardent archeologist, a connoisseur of native art. For his services to journalism and public welfare, the Emperor made him a peer, gave him the Second Order of Merit...
...reprinted twenty times, and was even attributed, by some master of irony, some unhonored Voltaire, (also, alas! unknown) to Shakespeare. But perhaps the author of "Mucedorus," the Edgar Wallace of his time, never aspired to Valhalia. . . Let us summon from Limbo instead the wraiths of John Gower, quondam peer of Chaucer; and of Stephen Hawes, his disciple: let us read the "Lament for the Makirs," and marvel...
Wall Street admits that Old Man Venner is probably without a legal peer in corporation transactions. He used to thumb over documents himself but now maintains a sizeable research staff. Intensely secretive, only he can tell how many of his big suits were settled out of court. Officials of a company with branches scattered throughout South America remember that a Venner disciple discovered he was entitled, as a stockholder, to inspect all the books-and demanded his right. After balancing the costs of transporting records from all its remote branches to Manhattan and back, the officers decided...
...last week with the organization of Empire Farmers' Co-Op., Ltd., an inter-Dominion society to limit production of foodstuffs throughout the British Empire with the announced goal of raising and pegging prices 25% above present levels. Chairman of E. F. Co-Op. is that most composite Empire peer, Trevor Grant of Grant, Baron Strathspey, who was born in New Zealand, is a Baronet of Nova Scotia, lives in Scotland...