Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only General Araki can ride the tiger," was a picturesque excuse passed around among Japanese politicians when they found themselves forced to make him War Minister with the powers of a quasi-Dictator (TIME, April 4. 1932). "The tiger" was Japan's Army &: Navy, then rampant with the ardor of fire-eating younger officers "to wage a purifying struggle [war] for the Divine Emperor." Last week, in view of the spectacular success in Japanese eyes of General Araki's two year ride on the tiger, the entire Far East was profoundly jolted by abrupt news that General Araki...
When the scraggly-mustached, ascetic General took charge, Japan's tiger was so restive that petty naval officers assassinated Premier Ki Inukai because they considered him a pacifist (TIME, May 23, 1932). Trusting General Araki, the fighting services who despise and hate all Japanese politicians, then settled down to the glorious tiger work of gobbling up Manchukuo and parts of China proper, not forgetting the Japanese naval clawing at Shanghai. Probably the Araki "ride" saved Japanese parliamentary government from being destroyed by a coup...
...left wing and Ben Beale at right, while Al Dewey who was high-scorer in last Wednesday night's game when he rang up three tallies and one assist, will lead off at center. This is the same will that began the game with Princeton last Saturday, which the Tiger took 3-0. In spite of the fact that the "wildcats" still show their old pep, the return of Ben Beale in time for the B. U. contest has made the Beale-Dewey-Hasler combination smoother and more effective than the Duffey-Hallowell-Kirkland forward wall. Frank Gleason and Bill...
...Tiger represents a team consisting with the exception of the defense man, of stickmen who are playing their third season of collegiate hockey together. Led by Captain Henry Thouron, who is ranked with Paul deGive as one of the best net-tenders in Eastern United States, they make up a formidable array of experienced skaters...
...inspect the tenements and help launch a prospective Housing Authority, a progressive Harvard graduate and one-time Assemblyman: Langdon W. Post, son-in-law of Rollin Kirby whose slashing cartoons in the World-Telegram helped throw the Tammany Tiger into the ashcan...