Word: shigeru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday at Ueno Zoo, starchy Premier Shigeru Yoshida made his bid for peace by gingerly thrusting a bunch of bananas at India's good-will ambassador, an elephant presented to Japan by India's Prime Minister Nehru...
Last February, Washington sent slight, straight-talking Banker Joseph Dodge, of Detroit, to help MacArthur get the program started. Last week Troubleshooter Dodge was packing to go home, his mission accomplished. In a busy three months he had persuaded Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government to balance its budget (for the first time since 1931) and set up a realistic yen rate (360 to $1 U.S.). In return for the national belt-tightening that this signified, the Japanese would receive U.S. aid (around $4,000,000 in 1949) along self-helping ECA lines...
Japanese voters this week gave a smashing electoral victory to the conservative government of cigar-smoking Shigeru Yoshida's Democratic Liberal party. With 263 seats of his own, and the support of 70 almost equally conservative members of the Democratic party, Yoshida would have for the next four years an overwhelming majority of the Diet's lower house of 466 members...
...with righteous illogic: "I've just been informed the Finance Minister is drunk in the Diet Building. I demand he be called before this session to explain the budget bill." After seven more minutes of bedlam, the house recessed again, to reopen at 10:23 with embarrassed Premier Shigeru Yoshida himself manfully mounting the rostrum to apologize for Izumiyama's inability to be present...
...last week Professor Yasumaro Shimojo walked into a large, dirty classroom at Nippon University in Tokyo. Grey old Shimojo had just been named Education Minister in Premier Shigeru Yoshida's precarious new cabinet...