Word: puppetize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These figures include Manchuria, which the Great Powers still consider part of China under the "Stimson Doctrine/' although Japan considers it her puppet empire of Manchukuo...
...Intelligence states that the Japanese are determined to wipe out the Generalissimo and myself by air bombing, thus causing chaos in China and enabling them to install a puppet ruler...
...Lewis usually lavishes his fine talent for invective. Reason: on the advice of Columbia Broadcasting lawyers he deleted his sulphurous remarks about Mr. Girdler.* Also toned down were some of the phrases about Governor Davey, whose militiamen broke the strike in Ohio. Roared Labor Lion Lewis: "The steel puppet, Davey, is still Governor of Ohio, but not for long. I think, not for long! ... No tin hat brigade of goosestepping vigilantes or bible-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation-paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of Labor...
...pigtailed, 36-year-old Prince Te, a pro-Japanese Mongolian, long head of the "Inner Mongolia for Inner Mongolians" movement (TIME, Oct. 23, 1933, et seq.). It was Prince Te with his Mongolian levies who helped the Japanese to take Kalgan. The highest position in Japan's latest puppet state was to be his reward...
Thus was poetic justice done, for only last October swashbuckling General Sidki organized a putsch, sent a flight of bombing planes circling over Bagdad, forced young, dreamy-eyed King Ghazi to install a puppet Premier (TIME, Nov. 9), and proceeded to consolidate his own power by instigating the assassination of General Jafar Pasha el Askari, the Defense Minister...