Word: puppetized
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...rumor, current in highest Japanese circles last week, was that on March 1 the puppet ruler of Manchukuo, Mr. Henry Pu-yi, will be proclaimed Emperor, will surround himself with a Court largely composed of Chinese who served him when as the babe Hsuan Tung he sat on the Dragon Throne at Peking...
...Manchu robes and bits of court regalia which they had sold for next to nothing after "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang drove the boy Emperor out of Peiping's Imperial Palace. With hopes high over 100 kinsmen of the Manchu House left Peiping for Manchukuo, led by Puppet Henry's Cousin Prince Kung...
...sums up his political credo in such characteristic Pilsudski snorts as "Parliament! What is Parliament? A prostitute!" Parliament, under the Constitution released in draft form by the Pilsudski Colonels last week, will be not a prostitute but a political zero. The President of Poland, now a Pilsudski-picked puppet named Ignacy Mosciclti, will become in effect Dictator, with power to: 1) appoint the Chief Justice, the Premier and the Commander-in-Chief of the Army; 2) dissolve Parliament and veto its acts without recourse; 3) designate one of two candidates to be elected his successor as President...
...character to his political puppet show, Louisiana's Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long went up to Arkansas last year, stumped the State with a motorcade and sound truck, elected Hattie Caraway to the Senate seat of her late husband. Wild was the uproar of outraged Louisianans last week when button-nosed, pugnacious Senator Long set out to ride Lallie Conner Kemp into Congress on his ruthless machine...
Under Ion the Great and his son Ion, the technique of "Bratianu Elections" became notorious throughout Europe. It included not only victory, when the Bratianu Premier wished to continue in power, but also defeat and the election of a puppet leader when the Dynasty of Bratianu saw fit to lie low temporarily. Dino Bratianu who now comes to power holds thousands of mortgage-ridden peasants in the hollow of his hand through his presidency of Rumania's national land bank, the Kredit Rural...