Word: roost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Highhandedly ruling Japan's roost last week was His Majesty's new "Gold-Braid" Cabinet led by handle-bar-mustached Premier General Senjuro Hayashi who had whittled down the customary 13 Cabinet officers to eight, pocketing the portfolios of Foreign Affairs and Education for himself. Premier Hayashi, moreover, had given every vital Cabinet job to a general or admiral, except that President Toyotaro Yuki of the Industrial Bank of Japan received the thankless post of Finance Minister, must somehow find the billions which Japan's fighting services demand...
...Come Home to Roost," an American Comedy by Fred Herendeen, is principally another way for the playgoer to fritter away an evening until the season settles down to being serious. In spite of the resuscitation of some very old jokes, the evening will be pleasantly enough spent, with an almost perpetual grin occasionally erupting into a laugh. But that's about all to expect...
Last fortnight another of the promises sprayed about by British diplomats in 1917 came home to roost when Britain's Wartime Minister David Lloyd George reminded the House of Commons: "The Balfour Declaration [for a British-backed Jewish homeland in Palestine] was made at one of the darkest times in the War. The French army had mutinied, the Italian army was on the eve of collapse, America had hardly started to come in. There was nothing left but for Great Britain to confront the most powerful military combination the world has ever seen. We came to the conclusion that...
Cried Laborite Arthur Greenwood: "The honorable Chancellor has balanced all his budgets either by defaulting in his payments to the United States or by robbing somebody's hen roost." To this, the best rejoinder Chancellor Chamberlain could think of was : "When the Labor Party was in power ... it received in reparations [from Germany] ?54,000,000 and paid the United States ?46,500,000. The National Government has received only ?800,000 in reparations, and paid the United States ?32,500,000." This seemed an excellent moment for moon-faced Winston Churchill to rise and call the Commons...
...years to prevent him from taking a second wife, Elizabeth M. Smith of Cleveland and Manhattan. And last week William Harahan found himself at the beginning of a second career when, following the death of John Joseph Bernet last month (TIME, July 15), he was returned to his old roost as president...