Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese Democracy chiefly consists of three major political parties: the "National Political" Minseito (majority), "Friendly Political" Seiyukai (minority) and Shakai Taishuto or "Social Mass Party." The first two live almost entirely upon nation-wide local graft, plus contributions from large Japanese corporations and family groups, and these two parties completely dominate the Imperial Diet. The Army & Navy have now decided that wealthy Japanese must be fleeced by semi-confiscatory taxation for the glory of the Empire, and that this glory must not be dimmed by any objections from the working class, the class from which the great majority of Japanese...
...Home Affairs, is fiery Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu. When deputies demanded that the posters be taken down he stormed at these representatives of the Japanese people as though they were schoolboys meddling on a warship's bridge. However, after 73-year-old Mr. Isoo Abe, leader of the Social Mass Party, had had his jaw broken by ruffians and retired to bed, Admiral Suetsugu permitted the police to give deputies opposed to the bill some protection, and the more inflammatory posters were pasted over with milder ones. To prove that His Imperial Majesty's Government was not asking anything...
Seeking Annulment. Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odlum Dominici, head of Manhattan's swankshop Bonwit Teller and former wife of investment trust Tycoon Floyd B. Odlum; of her marriage to Dr. Porfilio Dominici, Dominican physician; in Manhattan. Grounds: that she had been deceived about her husband's social and financial status by "fraud, conspiracy and misrepresentation...
Chiefly from Eastern and Southern newspapers, the nine winners of the Nieman Fellowships have specialized in a wide variety of journalistic work and will for the most part study social sciences here. Following are the recipients of the scholarships...
Irving Dillard, 33, editorial writer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, received an A.B. degree from Illinois and has done graduate work at Harvard. For 9 years he has specialized in social investigation...