Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strip Tease. The Communist Party immediately called for a nationwide general strike and a monster rally in Tokyo to protest the trial of the eight rioters. The Japanese government forbade any Communist open-air meetings until after the elections. On the day set for the protest rally Tokyo ran blue with police. The Communists had announced that they expected 30,000 to come to the rally, but it ended up as a subdued meeting of only 5,000. The general strike, too, was a fizzle. Communists had predicted that 400,000 workers would leave their jobs; actually about...
Candidates of most parties, however, had done little more than cudgel their brains for spectacular schemes to attract attention. A woman candidate had persuaded one of her pretty girl campaign workers to do a strip for the cause. In a Chiba Prefecture town another candidate had stationed henchmen in all the local firehouses. Whenever an alarm came in, the watchmen tipped off campaign headquarters and the candidate's loudspeaker truck sped off to the scene of the fire to harangue the crowd...
...tendencies, and has repeatedly violated the constitution to suit his own convenience. The press does not dare to criticize him, but the rambunctious National Assembly delights in doing so. One of the major campaign issue in this week's election was a proposal for constitutional revision which would strip the President of much of his power...
...plodding Senator Francis Myers, Democratic whip in the 81st Congress. The Democrats have hopefully stored away all the charges of vote buying and fraud hurled by the battling Republicans, and last week they were wondering aloud whether Grundymen would work very hard for a man who has sworn to strip them of all patronage. But Jim Duff had no regrets. Said he: "It was a fight which had to take place, because the party could not go two ways at the same time...
...fever has spread to non-Western fields: there are Hopalong Cassidy cookies, candy bars, wallpaper, soaps and watches. A Hopalong Cassidy comic strip runs in 75 daily and 42 Sunday newspapers; every week a network of 500 Mutual radio stations broadcasts the General Foods-sponsored Hopalong Cassidy show (Sun. 4 p.m. E.D.T.). And Composer Nacio Herb Brown (You Are My Lucky Star, Singin' in the Rain) has signed up for the exclusive privilege of writing songs about Hoppy...