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...even in this scene, the country was in ferment. The "bloodless revolution" was in full swing. Just two years ago, the Diet passed Japan's new constitution. MacArthur himself had written the first draft in his clear, old-fashioned hand. It reduced the Emperor from godhead to symbol, abolished the feudal aristocracy, gave the Diet genuine power to make laws, guaranteed popular liberties, decreed sex equality, renounced the nation's right to make war, even for self-defense. It contained such alien concepts as "public servants" (ancient custom made bureaucrats responsible only to the Throne) and "pursuit...
...changed the bill," Sullivan said last night, "because it was unlikely that it would be passed in its original form. However, the original draft of H-442 served a valuable purpose in that it let trustees of schools and colleges in the Commonwealth know that the Legislature was prepared to take drastic action against communist infiltration into our education institutions...
...License Commissioners, according to the present draft of the ordinance, would be required to refuse permits in localities where off-street parking space is available at reasonable rates within reasonable proximity...
...onetime worker in a rendering plant, seaman, streetcar motorman, homesteader, gandy dancer, Wobbly and hobo. Stalin ended all rivalries in 1930 by enshrining Earl Browder at the top. Browder, born in Wichita, Kans. in 1891, was a onetime bookkeeper for a drug house, flute player, mystic and draft resister in World War I, for which he went to prison...
...that Socialism is like a bicycle;-if it stops, it topples. Therefore they have long advocated a fast, nonstop nationalization of British industries. Last week it was apparent that the Bevan group had given some ground to the go-slow faction headed by Herbert Morrison. Labor issued the first draft of the platform on which it hopes to be re-elected next year, and the gist was that the Socialist bicycle would move forward at a greatly reduced rate of speed...