Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goddess, Pacifica (see cut), which San Francisco's veteran Ralph Stackpole modeled to be the exposition's 70 ft. cynosure. But Mr. Connick remarked of Abundance, a nude male figure by David Slivka, that it looked more like a failure of the fig leaf crop; of Occident & Orient, two female nudes by Jacques Schnier, that they would be barred from burlesque; of South American Woman Grinding Corn by Cecilia Graham, that it should be called Woman Bet-Loser Shoving a Peanut With Her Nose...
...foremost regardless of citizenship under another flag, 3 Germany would soon begin buying only from fascist nations, 4 all fascist nations must prepare for the eventual war against democracy, 5 state funds would be donated to the Rebel cause in Spain and to the cause of Japan in the Orient...
...Panay incident was a dramatic demonstration of that feature of the Japanese constitution under which the army and navy (1 are pledged to conquer the Orient for Japan, 2 must obey to the letter the orders of the civilian premier, 3 need pay no attention to orders from either the premier or the Emperor, 4 are responsible only to the Emperor and virtually independent of the civilian Government, 5 are responsible only to commanders in the field...
Since face is a matter of high importance in the Orient, the slapping of a U. S. official caused President Roosevelt to spend two hours conferring with State Department officials. U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew at Tokyo was then ordered to obtain an expression of regret from Japanese Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kensuke Horinouchi. This Washington officially accepted as "satisfactory," closed the case. Whether the Chinese woman identified any rapists, what happened to her or them, remained unknown to the State Department...
...tack on an amendment exempting counties (i. e., Illinois' Cook) from liabilities arising from gang murders and labor violence. This gave Kenneth McKellar an opportunity to bait Illinois'. Ham Lewis into a voluble debate on Chicago jurisprudence. North Carolina's Robert Reynolds helped out by discussing Europe, the Orient, the British Isles, South America, Africa, the Malay States...