Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political Situation. When members of the present Parliament were elected (TIME, March 5), the Seiyukai party of Prime Minister General Baron Giichi Tanaka could count upon only 221 seats. The Government was therefore menaced with upset by the Minseito opposition of 214, plus a faction holding the balance of power led by Deputy Yusuke Tsurumi. That the Cabinet was not immediately overthrown, was due to the adjournment of Parliament for the solemn enthronement of the Emperor Hirohito...
During this ceremonious interval, Baron Tanaka has unquestionably played politics with bribes and blandishments. The result appeared to be, last week, that Deputy Yusuke Tsurumi and his balance-of-power faction are now heart and soul for the Prime Minister. Furthermore moneyed Baron Tanaka has persuaded 29 of the Minseito opposition Deputies to bolt their party under Takejiro Tokonami and set themselves up as soi-disant independents. This reduces the effective strength of the Minseito opposition to 185, making certain supremacy for the Prime Minister...
...superintendent, one Hickey, expressed gratitude by not forgetting. Three months later the new Colorado & Southern shop foreman at Trinidad, Colo., was a tireless, driving, hardheaded youngster named Walter Chrysler. Other railroads heard, needed, beckoned. After a bit the superintendent of motive power of the whole Chicago & Great Western system was a new man named Chrysler. "W. P." they called him, aged...
...American Locomotive Co. at Pittsburgh needed a works manager. The Great Western's superintendent of motive power, well-paid though he was, concluded that, without executive experience, a mechanical man can get just so far and no further in railroading. Moreover, building engines for sale interested him more than buying engines and keeping them running until they died of old age. He took the Pittsburgh job, at a big drop in salary. The salary did not stay down long...
...kingdom averages about 1,700 inhabitants. They make and repair their own clothing, cook and serve their food, run a farm, a school, a library, a chapel, a laundry, a barber shop, a sewage system, a factory which turns out $650,000 worth of products a year, a power plant which, incidentally, supplies the "juice" used in the electric chair...