Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warsaw and Prague there will be further consultations between the Foreign Secretaries of the United Kingdom, France and Italy at Stresa. ... I raise my glass to the happiness and prosperity of the peoples of this great country, to the President of the All-Union Central Executive Committee [Comrade Kalinin, puppet 'Soviet President'] and, Monsieur Litvinoff, to your very good health...
...Louisiana in a literal sense that non-Louisianians cannot understand. In six years he ran the State debt up from $46,000,000 to $143,000,000 and doubled its annual operating expenses but today no responsible person in Louisiana dares challenge his power. The Governor is his puppet. He curses his State Legislature to its face and then boldly boasts that "they are the finest collection of lawmakers money can buy." The State judiciary is so packed with Longsters that a legal test of the Senator's autocracy is out of the question. The State guard...
...cost over $400,000,000 some 30 years ago. Its net profit for 1933 was over $5,000,000 (before Roosevelt). Prior to Japanese interference in setting up the puppet Empire of Manchukuo, the C. E. R. earned $10,000,000 (before Roosevelt) yearly from 1924 to 1930. Thus the C. E. R. changed hands last week for less than five times its earnings in an average year, the worst bargain made by Soviet Russia since Lenin accepted the Peace of Brest-Litovsk...
...Soviet Socialist Republics ever been strong enough, despite its present "World's Largest Army" (see p. 15), to outbluff, much less outfight, a resolute adversary like Japan. With boundless insolence the yellow men, as they bought Stalin's railway for a song last week, actually egged their puppet Emperor of Manchukuo to extend official recognition to the Grand Duke Cyril, pretender to the Throne of Russia. One more insult to Stalin & Co. came when Emperor Kang Te announced that while all Red Russian employes of the C. E. R. are to be fired, all its White Russian employes...
...graduated from Tokyo Law College and attached himself to Dr. Sun. In 1909 he rushed to Peking for a bold effort to assassinate Prince Regent Chun, father of the Boy-Emperor who was then China's Son-of-Heaven, now reigns as Manchukuo's puppet Emperor...