Word: rubber-stamps
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Still wearing (contrary to Berlin reports) the special soldier suit he had sworn on Sept. 1 to clothe himself in "until victory or death," Adolf Hitler rose one night last week before his rubber-stamp Reichstag. He had just returned from a one-day tour of his latest prize of war, the ruined city of Warsaw (see p. 45). He was now about to launch his well-heralded peace offensive...
Japan's rubber-stamp Diet last week heard its new Premier, Fascist-minded Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, make some unorthodox admissions: 1) Chinese resistance was formidable; 2) in conquered territory Japanese troops controlled only cities and communications lines; 3) the Japanese Army will have to remain in China for a long time to come...
...Batista launched a social, economic "New Deal." On the one hand he amnestied Tyrant Machado, on the other he decided to make payments on the defaulted bonds to bolster Cuba's credit so he could begin borrowing afresh. Last week he had his figurehead President, Federico Laredo Bru, rubber-stamp through congress a settlement which provides: 1) refunding of $40,000,000 5½% bonds, largely held by the Chase interests, with a 4½% issue; 2) payment of $20,000,000 short-term credit owed the Chase; and 3 ) appointment of a commission to haggle over...
Until he had been on the Jingalese throne 25 years, King John was just another rubber-stamp monarch who did as he was told. But sometimes he thought wistfully that it would be nice to know a little bit what it was all about. Or maybe just have a friend to talk to. Lately these troubled moods had been recurring more frequently. He even went so far as to argue with a Cabinet minister, which upset him to the point where he fell down a stairway and knocked a bone loose in his head. Later in the day, having recovered...
...make it look like an attempted assassination, so that abdication now would look like cowardice rather than a rebuke to his Cabinet. King John admitted he was licked. Soon after he became seriously ill, the loose bone was discovered and fixed, whereupon the King recovered rapidly, became his old rubber-stamp self again...