Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate's action was a shock to Manuel Quezon and many of his Nacionalista (majority) party. When Woodrow Wilson was his good friend, "The Patrick Henry of the Philippines" had his best chance of wrenching his land unconditionally free. In '99 and after, he had shed blood for independence. Now, smoking cigarets by the chain system, he found independence under the terms set by Congress "unjust and absurd." But with racial shrewdness (he is quarter-Spanish) he decided to hold his fire until the independence commission returns to present its arguments to the Legislature. The coming regular legislative...
...moment Senator Glass looked dumfounded. Then in a quavering voice he announced: "Mr. President, I have just been apprised of a fact very, very distressing to the nation generally and to me particularly. Former President Coolidge has just dropped dead. I think the Senate should immediately adjourn." Numb with shock, the Senate adjourned...
Impatient to get hair and start making felt at once, the Ministry of Light Industry dispatched a special barbers & felters shock brigade to Gorki (once Nizhni Novgorod), seat of the Soviet Union's biggest truck factory. When the brigade arrived Gorki was plunged in gloom. Officials had just turned in their year-end report, admitted that during 1932 Gorkites built only 7,500 trucks, compared to the Five-Year Plan scheduled production...
...Next shock to the Japanese people was news that their Government is taking specific steps to put the Army on a war basis. Ominously the Japanese War Ministry announced: "Although Soviet Russia's attitude toward Japan is at present entirely friendly it is impossible to forecast the future. Therefore, we must bring our forces in Manchuria to a state of efficiency, modernization and mechanization equal to that of the Red Army...
...bristling official statement. "If thorough training were carried out it would take 17 years to train the required number of [mechanized Army] specialists, but present conditions do not admit of this leisurely, though ideal, method." By rush methods 100,000 men will be trained in 1933-34. Another shock of the week was a sudden announcement by Tokyo police that they had caught four men red-handed in a plot to assassinate Premier Viscount Makoto Saito. Was there perhaps something strange about this? There was. The four men were caught not last week but last August. News of their plot...