Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagaka prayed at a shrine in their medieval Tokyo Palace. On the same day Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma led his entire Cabinet to famed Yasukuni Shrine, in Tokyo, where they paid their respects to Japan's war dead. At noonday there was a moment of silence. There were no parades, no brass bands, no excitement. Correspondents described the atmosphere in the Japanese capital as one of quiet resignation, with stronger indications than ever before that the Japanese people, going into the third year of war, would welcome peace. It was the second anniversary...
...without parliament, packed off his 618 Deputies for summer vacations which, he warned, "may be briefer than you think." He then had them herded into the lobbies, where a new gas mask enclosed in a grey-green tin box was issued to each Deputy, clinching the points of the Premier's speech...
...national defense loan was floated, and the French Army opened its ranks to foreigners who wish to pledge during peace that they will fight "for the duration of the war." The Premier called a meeting of the Cabinet, which approved "measures to strengthen the action of France and to end any misconception of the firmness of her resolution." Then appeared a very incongruous announcement that Germany and France were about to initial an agreement to increase trade...
...delivered on his deathbed. He was a graduate of the Law College at Tokyo. He traveled often in Europe, learned to speak fluent French, several times took diabetes cures in Germany. He was there when the present war started. For more than two years he was China's Premier...
When fun-loving, beer-bibbing, golf-playing Prince Fumitaka ("Butch") Konoye, 24, flunked out of Princeton (TIME, March 6), he expected to get what-for from his father, former Japanese Premier Fumimaro Konoye. The family's "face" was saved when Butch was appointed Dean of Japanese-sponsored Tung-wen College in Shanghai's French Concession. Last week, with flying colors, Butch passed an examination given by a conscription board and was admitted to the Japanese army...