Word: puppetize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan subsidizes spidery-limbed Mr. Pu, provides him with a life of modest splendor in the Japanese quarter of Tientsin, holds him up her sleeve as a possible puppet emperor whom she might place on the throne of any part of China which might secede (see p. 19) and prefer a monarchy to a republic. Last week aggrieved Concubine Shu Fei told what life is like at Mr. Pu's queer court...
...claim him. his attachment for Miss Patrick dwindles and Mr. Cohan, still wobbling his jolly head, prepares to lead the young lady to the altar. Some of the lines in Friendship look even worse than they sound. Sample from Miss Patrick's batch: "I'm just a puppet. That's all I've ever been to you." Mr. Cohan: "I know I've caused her many a heartache, many a tear." Actor Cohan, who wrote the piece, also wrote in a little part (that of the young litterateur's sister) so that his pretty...
...first Doherty counterattack was a heavy barrage of telegrams. Whipped to fury by having his stock suspended he turned from the central issue of gas rates to assail the Kansas City Star, which he pictured as a wicked newspaper dictating to a puppet Governor, hurting the welfare of 1,000,000 Cities Service securities-owners by its action. Strength was added to his punches by the fact that in Kansas alone are several thousand Cities Service investors. Big shells in the first telegraphic attack included...
...itself into a grand Paderewski jamboree. Dictator Pilsudski and Pianist Paderewski (officially tending his sick wife in Switzerland) both considered it wise to absent themselves. So did General Pershing who had been invited. At the last minute, lest the Paderewskites should stage some really serious demonstration, Dictator Pilsudski sent puppet President Moscicki to the unveiling. He drove with Mrs. Wilson and the Baruch family through streets of cheering citizens. As President Moscicki came abreast of rank after rank of Poznan citizens most of them shouted: "Long live Paderewski!", a few "Long live Mrs. Wilson," none shouted "Long live President Moscicki...
Egyptian Fraud. As everyone knows, Great Britain must control the Suez Canal, vital "backbone" of Empire trade. Therefore she must control Egypt. She does so through Puppet-King Fuad. In the past two years His Majesty has cut himself off, step by step, from the Egyptian people and their elected representatives. When the anti-British and popular Wafd party won the last election by a majority of 19 to 1 over all opponents combined (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930), it became clear that if King Fuad was to remain on his throne and remain a British puppet the next election would...