Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Surabaya were just one sign last week of the alertness of The Netherlands East Indies. The islands had new cause to be wary. Another Japanese negotiator was on his way to Batavia ostensibly to talk oil-but the Dutch knew that selling oil to Japan might be a very minor part of the conversations. They recalled what happened to French Indo-China...
Last week the Wang Ching-wei puppetry faced a crisis. Mr. Chou gathered in Shanghai a conference of Chinese financiers who had agreed to back Wang's Japanese-sponsored regime. They announced that they would not continue to support Wang unless he were "relegated to a minor capacity in all financial decisions." By week's end their pressure had been felt. Nanking announced formation of the Central Reserve Bank, to have entire charge of putting Nanking currency on its feet throughout occupied China. Named as Governor of the Bank: Chou...
...Jeeves looks like an intellectual giant. There is also Mr. Mulliner, of the bar parlor at the Angler's Rest, and his multifarious nephews. And there are the legends clustering about the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's prize pig. As in all major epics, there are minor themes, characters and inspirations-the ups & downs of the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth's useless boy, who finally gets himself an American heiress and a job in her father's dog-biscuit business ("I can't think what they would use him for," mused Lord Emsworth...
...until last week were the figures of November's Presidential election finally, officially all in and counted, to the last lorn vote. Swamped, and thoroughly swamped, were the minor parties. Of the record total of 49,818,095 votes cast, 27,245,422 went to Roosevelt. 22,323,801 to Willkie. Norman Thomas' Socialist vote (116,796) was the lowest since 1900, when a Socialist candidate (Eugene Debs) first appeared on the ballot. Communist Earl Browder, barred from some State ballots, got only 49,028, ran behind Prohibitionist Roger Babson, who polled 58,674. Total for all minor...
Waterworks Superintendent Lewis Kohl was fired, Assistant Jones suspended. Within 72 hours, 5,000 persons had taken the first in a course of three typhoid vaccinations. From Albany the State Department of Health rushed 46,000 doses of vaccine. A thousand citizens fell ill with minor intestinal disturbances. Since the typhoid bacillus takes from seven to 42 days to incubate, the city remained in dreadful suspense...