Word: stop-gap
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Cabinet's Birthday. Meanwhile in Japan the exact and hotly disputed nature of the Emperor Hirohito's godhood remained a major issue which still threatened to upset the Government of bustling old Admiral Keisuke Okada. Somewhat to his enemies' amazement the present stop-gap Cabinet rounded out a full year in office last week, celebrated with a champagne lunch...
...important, but that it would rarely be given due weight. If he was a good tutor, the fact would not be held against him, but neither would it count heavily in his favor. Consequently the young man who went into tutoring tended to look upon it only as a stop-gap an activity through which he would be able to keep in touch with the academic world until something better came...
...foredoomed his Administration. Tammany put its bets on Al Smith instead of Franklin Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Tammany bucked the nomination of honest Herbert Henry Lehman for Governor of the State. Tammany foisted bumbling old John Patrick O'Brien on the city as a stop-gap mayor. Tammany lost last year's municipal election to a Fusion-Republican ticket. For this accumulation of political sins Boss Curry last week paid with his head...
...since the February riots have not appeased the populace on the specific issue of the day, the Stavisky burglary; and the turn of international affairs has convinced the vast indefinite body of patriots that France has quite noticeably lost prestige on the Continent. Papa, Doumergue's government is a stop-gap which can satisfy no one for very long: this poker-playing parliamentarian is plainly not cut out for the Strong Man which events both foreign and domestic foreshadow. The dizzy succession of cabinets has played into the hands of the fascist element, and the Royalists have contributed their little...
Agriculturist-Diplomat Jardine's lame-duck return from Egypt last autumn was timely for Kansas Republicans. He was just the well-known, respected stop-gap they needed for the State Treasury, headless and reeking after the Finney bond scandal (TIME...