Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should not judge their form of government, he added, without considering the character and history of the Japanese people. Since February 11, 660 B.C., the traditional date for the founding of the empire, Japan had been ruled by the Shoguns who controlled the office of Prime Minster, while the Emperor was reduced to a religious figurehead too holy to interfere in lowly matters of government. A revival of learning in the eighteenth century and contact with the western world revealed their true condition to the Japanese people. In 1867 the last Shogun retired and restored the Emperor to his full...
...behalf of RKO, Paramount, MGM, Columbia, Universal and Twentieth Century-Fox, Twentieth Century's Chairman Joseph M. Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting of a Guild shop (virtually closed shop), extras' pay upped 10% with a null minimum, overtime pay for players in the lower brackets, revision of the Call Bureau...
...Meantime Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, due to retire after the Coronation, tried to pour oil on the troubled waters in his last House of Commons speech. The occasion was a debate on the colliery dispute. Cautiously Prime Minister Baldwin committed his Government to no scheme for dissipating the labor clouds, talked discursively about "miners being human beings," about "practicing the arts of peace in a world of strife," about "democracy and its relation to our industrial conditions." Only once did he make any reference to the one topic uppermost in everyone's mind-the bus strike. He declared...
...once more. This time, the sparring partner was a 3-to-1 favorite over his onetime employer. Experts felt that, after twelve years of fighting in which he had held the featherweight championship once, the junior welterweight championship once, the lightweight championship twice, Canzoneri, at 29, was past his prime...
...break in gold shares that an investigation was loudly demanded in the House of Assembly with the big mining companies accused of manipulating their own stocks. "Absolutely absurd and fantastic," cried old General Jan Christiaan Smuts last week, speaking as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice. "The trouble we have to deal with here is not manipulation but much more serious. It is about the future of gold...