Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the plot grimly unfolded in the Supreme Court in Tokyo last week. Fifty-four accused men sat in the dock, nabbed by the imperial police 15 months ago before they could make a move (TIME. July 31, 1933). Miserably they bleated: "We called ourselves God-Sent Troops. Our only purpose was to serve the Emperor...
...selling Merchant Nato and slack-jowled Commander Yamaguchi "died in jail" before the trial, as did two others who might have blabbed on the fanatical Committee of Revolution. Those tried last week were nearly all raw country youths, dupes of typical Japanese "blood brotherhood" propaganda. On paper the Great Plot had been one of the most appalling in Japanese history. But the only weapons of the plotters, aside from the bombing plane which never appeared, was a collection of Japanese swords and a handful of revolvers obviously useless against the firearms of police guarding the cabinet and dignitaries like Count...
Flavored with young love and London fog, furnished with an assortment of sweatered rogues talking Cockney out the sides of their mouths, the plot capers at the Bishop's gaitered heels as he discovers that the crime was planned by Hester (Maureen O'Sullivan) and Donald (Norman Foster) to "get back the stolen papers." Walter Connolly made a great success as the Bishop in the Broadway version of Frederic Jackson's play last winter, but it is hard to believe that anyone could be as good as Edmund Gwenn is in this adaptation. He is even convincing when his Episcopalian...
...This $2,000,000 Gothic edifice, eleventh in size among the world's cathedrals, was planned in 1853, dedicated in 1879, on a Fifth Avenue plot owned by the Church since...
...world and prevent war is thwarted by his inability to find a political group or a party in whose sincerity and effectiveness he can believe. He moves first toward the Socialists, but is repelled by their callow optimism, learns of the existence of a mysterious secret society that may plot to prevent war by killing its key men. He investigates the Masons, arrives at no decision...