Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week it was announced that the Tojo Government would ask the Diet to approve tax increases of 600,000,000-700,000,000 yen for the fiscal year. The Government proposed "to have the nation understand and cooperate with it through the Imperial Diet." By calling the Diet the Government assumed the responsibility of presenting the nation with a definite policy...
Regular departments include a "Teachers' Help-One-Another Club" (contributors get $1 apiece for fresh teaching ideas), a lonely hearts column in which teachers and pupils advertise their yen to correspond with classes elsewhere. Eight experts (in arithmetic, reading, etc.) answer teachers' questions. One of the most popular departments (called The You You Can Be) advises teachers about grooming and behavior. Sample tips...
...have written for advice. Many a group of missionaries on furlough has flocked to talk with the founders. An important visitor was Japan's No. 1 Christian, Toyohiko Kagawa. Lord's Acres now flourish in India, China, Brazil, Mexico and Japan, furnishing rupees, dollars, miireis, pesos and yen for the local missions...
...ambitious generals. He hitched his wagon to Chiang's star at Whampoa, has been riding high ever since. After his rise to public fame in Chiang's northern campaign of 1926, he divorced his wife and the Generalissimo arranged for him to marry the daughter of Tan Yen-kai, soon afterward Premier of China...
...lick the Infantry in a hundred thousand years. > Last song in the Army book, first when the columns are marching, is still You're in the Army Now. > Unfit to print for the 1941 Army was Mad'moiselle from Armentières. Soldiers with a yen for back-room balladry will have to get along with a laundered, abbreviated Bastard King of England (retitled The Minstrels Sing of an English King) and a sanitized Colombo (borrowed from the Book of Navy Songs...