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Lexington stands 950 feet above sea level in the Blue Grass country, famed for Bourbon whiskey, tobacco, horses, stock farms (Elmendorf Ashland). Near Lexington was born Abraham Lincoln. And once in Lexington a statue of Native Henry Clay was decapitated by a prankish thunderbolt...
...political thunderbolt, craftily prepared, was hurled by Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka, last week, in an effort to weaken the Opposition parties by discrediting their extreme left wing, the Ronoto or Farmer-Laborites. The vital import of the Ronoto is that its two Deputies give the Opposition a theoretical plurality of two over the Government parties, in the newly elected Diet (TIME, March 5) which will shortly assemble. Numbers: Opposition, including Ronoto, 228; Government, 226; and Independents...
...substantiate the thunderbolt thus hurled by Prime Minister Tanaka, the Ministry of Justice next blazoned a propaganda leaflet allegedly seized during one of the police raids. Text...
Throughout Japan the Prime Minister's thunderbolt took such potent effect that in several instances angry crowds mobbed Ronoto speakers. None the less impartial observers lent a sympathetic ear to stalwart, forthright Ikuo Oyama, Leader of the Ronoto. He swore that its members are not Communists but the unfortunate victims of a Government scheme to intimidate the Opposition...
...EIected to the U. S. Senate in 1911 when in his 30's, he served for one term (1911-17), gained the nickname "Young Thunderbolt" because he was dynamic...