Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From admittedly incomplete information, it would appear that Japan feels the moment appropriate to extend the claims made in the Twenty-one Demands of 1915. Thwarted at that time, chiefly by untimely publicity, in her endeavors to establish a virtual protectorate over China, she managed deftly to acquire a strangling grasp on certain important Chinese economic interests, such as the Han-Yehping mines, as well as significant privileges in Manchuria. Her recent advances in this tremendously important region need no comment, and these are being supplemented by subterranean movements in Mongolia and Sinkiang. From these it would appear, with little...
Moreover the University is absolutely sure of getting its money. No bad debts can exist behind the compulsory bond. The concession is a virtual miniature gold mine. In the square on the other hand where prices are far more nominal, charge accounts exist in sparcity because the merchant has no positive guarantee. Consequently students are driven into the arms of the Night Lunch Counter because there a charge account is accepted. One thing must be done to end this gross exploitation. The University must run the Night Lunch on a non-profit basis and make public its accounts to guarantee...
BEWILDERED business men, fully aware that the government has the power of virtual confiscation and that they must comply with the edicts of the NRA, are nevertheless frankly asking how they are going to fulfill the request of the administration that hours be shortened and wages not merely spread among more workers but actually increased...
...Count Miyoji Ito, 76, wealthy conservative Japanese statesman; of stomach ulcers; in Tokyo. In the long bickering over the ratification of the London Naval Treaty in 1930 Count Ito lost to his enemy, Premier Hamaguchi. Japan signed and Count Ito, still a member of the Privy Council, went into virtual political retirement...
Perhaps the important thing that Mr. Wallace has to say is his virtual confession that nineteenth century liberalism along with its dominant idea, freedom of expression, will have to be abandoned; he says that we must submit to "a completely army-like, nationalist discipline even in peace time," and this also requires "a certain degree of regimental opinion." In short adoption of the new order means the definite and final end of democracy as anything but a myth and a dream...