Word: saks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party involved was the Sakdal (a Tagalog dialect word roughly translatable as "I accuse") with a membership estimated between 10,000 and 200,000 on the main island of Luzon. Four years ago Benigno Ramos began organizing the Sak-dalistas after Manuel Quezon fired him from the job of clerk of the Philippine Senate. Ramos' platform was calculated to appeal to poor malcontents: abolition of poll and land taxes, better roads, more schools, shared wealth. Significance of the Sakdal party name was its bitter opposition to the "favoritism and corruption" of Boss Quezon's dominant Nationalist party. Evidently...
...present came a trifle late. Kenzo Adachi is a shrewd politician and former Home Minister (in the Minseito Cabinet of saké-drinking Reijiro Wakatsuki) who years ago won the nickname of Senkyo no Kamisama or "God of Elections" by his skill in managing the outcome of local elections. Thirteen months ago the God of Elections resigned from the Minseito to avoid expulsion after dickering with the Seiyukai Party to form a Coalition Cabinet. Japanese Fascism, the Kokumin Domei or National League, is his latest idea. Its flag: a golden eagle on a light brown background. Its uniform: black belted...
...Imperial Gift: A 20-gallon cask of Japanese sak...
Significance: According to the Imperial Chamberlain, the Sun of Heaven thus signified "general approbation of the Chief Delegate's labors." Patriots recalled that Mr. Wakatsuki carried with him from Japan to England across the dry U. S. 20 jolly little kegs of sakė, though at the Conference he often diplomatically drank Scotch and occasionally Irish...
...yellowish-white liquid which, as Japanese scientists ingeniously say "stands midway between wine and beer." Usual alcoholic strength 12 to 15%. The 60,000,000 Japanese drink 150,000,000 gallons of sakė yearly. Like gin, sakė contains a dash of glycerin...