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Dates: during 1940-1940
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But he was Japanese. In his character were the seeds of present-day Japan. A story is told that one day in his youth in Paris he was drinking in a bistro. Spirits ran high. Accidentally he broke a window. A French waiter grew angry and told him to pay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Last of the Genro | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

The Japanese Government is in the hands of extremists. One faction-the Army group-wants to seize the prize of the Indies; another wants to overthrow the Emperor and seize power for itself. Foremost among the latter is a dark character named Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, who has been involved in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Blood-Red Patriot | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Joseph A. Brandt, a rawboned, red-haired Indianan, is a character straight out of The Front Page. His family wanted him to be a preacher, but by the time he had worked his way through the University of Oklahoma and got three degrees from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sooner Back to Sooners | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Last fortnight the University of Oklahoma Regents elected this prodigious character as the university's president. First Oklahoma alumnus to hold the office (salary: $10,000), 41 -year-old Joseph Brandt, a Lutheran, will succeed BaptistBible-collecting William Bennett Bizzell next August. Oklahoma's Sooners (named for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sooner Back to Sooners | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

From Granville Hicks to Professor Latourette, from Littauer to Adams, from "The Fall of France" to "The Character of Loki," the billboards and lecture halls are jam-packed.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PSST-- | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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