Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese Army circles, close to Premier Koki Hirota and firmly antiCommunist, cracked the whip last week and civilian leaders of both great Japanese political parties expressed warm approval of the Hitler Crusade. Ready were Army zealots to smash any Japanese of consequence who disagreed, but they did not bother last week about certain notes of caution sounded by large Tokyo newspapers with Big Business connections. Of these Nichi Nichi, the boldest, said: "We heartily welcome friendship with Germany, but we feel as though we are running after a fly with a hatchet if the agreement is aimed only against...
...visited the depressed areas of South Wales (TIME, Nov. 30), and was overheard to exclaim to Welsh proletarians: "Something must be done for Wales!" This having been printed by Viscount Rothermere's Daily Mail, Baron Camrose's Daily Telegraph hotly retorted: "Those who would make a whip to beat the Ministers out of the kind and human feelings the King has shown are not helping the depressed areas but are doing His Majesty a grave disservice...
...Bolger, and the glorified American girl. Revolutionizing the New York stage he began by copying foreign revues and built successively his follies, his shows on the roof garden of the New Amsterdam and produced the top in musical comedies like "Show Boat," and the "Three Musketeers." Ziegfeld cracked the whip over Broadways thirty dizziest years, and his death after the crash ended a great period in entertainment...
...provincial telephone system at a cost so low as to suggest there was no graft, and put taxes on a reasonable basis. He maintains a private army of 70,000 and wherever he goes in Shantung deals out justice, sitting as judge and jury, then seizing a heavy whip and personally executing his own flogging sentences which have a local reputation for being fair...
...himself driven to work from his Wheaton estate in a coupe, in order to avoid having to offer a neighbor a lift. Yearly he entertains his employes in the Tribune Tower lobby. Remarked Cousin Joe Patterson at one of these affairs: "Bert certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march by." Under the Tribune masthead each day has appeared "The Tribune platform for 1936: Turn the Rascals Out." Last week the Tribune editorial columns were devoted to the thesis that Franklin Roosevelt deliberately planned and abetted the banking panic of 1933 in order to set the stage...