Word: whitewashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ashikaga, though he promulgated an admirable list of moral precepts, the Ashikaga Law Code, Japanese text books and histories still reserve the place of ''blackest traitor in the history of the Empire." In 1924 Baron Kumakichi Nakajima, potent ironmonger and merchant with a scholarly flair, attempted to whitewash Traitor Takauji in a magazine article, praising him as a vanquisher of despots and a lawgiver and concluded by renaming him Japan's Oliver Cromwell. Few took notice of Ironmonger Nakajima's article. Last week Baron Nakajima, now Minister of Commerce and Industry, woke one morning to find...
...process each once ran foul of his State's governor. President Suzzallo's feud with Washington's Hartley cost him his job (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). The Iowa legislative committee which in 1931 investigated the State university on charges of maladministration gave President Jessup a thorough whitewash. More than adequate balm for his political wounds came to Henry Suzzallo in 1930 when he was handed a front-rank post in U. S. education - the presidency of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He kept it until his death last September. Last week in Iowa City...
...Valentine's Day closing; and 3) "most powerfully am I urged to conclude that the Government would not permit an insolvent bank to operate in fraud of its citizens, and I am constrained to find that the two national banks . . . were solvent." It was a thorough whitewash of Detroit's banks & bankers...
...Boland who said: "When I see girders that snap off like pretzels. I know something is wrong." Last week on motion of Congressman McClintic, no longer a committeeman. the Akron quiz was taken away from Naval Affairs and given to a joint Senate-&-House committee "that won't whitewash the Navy...
...that Chancellor von Papen acted unconstitutionally when he, acting under a decree of President von Hindenburg, suppressed the elected Gov ernment of Prussia and replaced it by an appointed Federal Commissioner (TIME, Aug. I). Obviously this suit, which the Supreme Court is expected to decide this week, will either whitewash Herren von Hindenburg and von Papen or brand them as Constitution-breakers in the eyes of German voters...