Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Control of Japan by men of politics instead of men of the sword is a new-fangled arrangement, dating de jure from the reign of Emperor Meiji who introduced an Occidental (Prussian) style of Constitution in 1889 and de facto from the founding of Japan's oldest political party (Seiyukai) in 1900. Naturally the Army & Navy with their ancient traditions scorn Japanese Constitutionalism which is only in its swaddling clothes. The lower classes (both proletarians arid peasants) tend to approve each fresh assassination of a politician or financier by a civilian or a member of the fighting services...
...They aimed to cause a reign of terror by menacing the existence of the Government and thus try to turn public attention to the necessity of entirely changing the present outlook on life. They sacrificed their lives for the nation as martyrs. We deeply regret and deplore the occurrence of the incident but feel that only a few Japanese today remain who are satisfied with existing conditions...
...That the reign of Elmer Gantry would seek to establish itself among us again is not in itself astonishing, though the least knowing might be aware at this date that objectionable things are not driven either from society or the mind by covering up their existence. That such a step could be taken in a university, and taken seriously, is a sardonic commentary on the maturity of the undergraduate mind. Perhaps "the faculty board of supervisors of student activities" will display a sense of balance which evidently is not found elsewhere at Northwestern. If not, they will at least have...
...Pope Julius II was listening, not too graciously, to the explanations of the Venetian Ambassador. For the Republic had challenged once again the temporal sovereignty of the 'Vatican, and the explanations of its ambassador were exercises in the arrogant rhetoric of the Renaissance. To a pope who reckoned his reign by the cities he had conquered, every pharse was a gauntlet thrown down: "If Venice does not bow to my wishes," he exclaimed, "I will grind it lower than a fishing village." The reply was a challenge to battle. 'If Your Holiness does not yield to Venice, we will grind...
...demands" are unemployment insurance for college graduates who do not find positions, state scholarships for needy students, and the abolition of faculty interference in extra-curricular activities. Among other things it proposes a defense of the U.S.S.R. and an "exposure of the constant trend in America towards a Fascist reign by capitalist interests." These aims as well as the participation of the National Students League in the Columbia strike and in the expedition to the Kentucky mining district are possibly open to charges of sensationalism. But, if only by reaction, the organization of the League should be a desirable stimulus...