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...Japan Year Book's Ano Hito Wa Tare Desuka ("Who's Who")* when Japan's doddering "Old Fox," Premier Ki Inukai, 77, made him War Minister (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931). Since then, in Lieut.-General Araki's opinion, events have followed the Divine pattern. Last week the Japanese Army, symbolizing the Imperial Sword, was striking the last blows needed to round out Japan's imperial scheme of things in Manchuria, striking to possess the last province not yet taken, the Province of Jehol...
Integrally a part of Sadao Araki's whole life pattern has been the evolution of Japan's imperial scheme. As a youth, desperately poor but proud of his Samurai (knightly) lineage, he gloried in modern Japan's first and decisive war with China which ended (when he was 18) in the ceding by China to Japan of Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and Southern Manchuria including Port Arthur. When Germany, France and Russia forced Japan to disgorge all her spoils except Formosa and the Pescadores, the young Samurai's blood boiled with rage and shame...
...years the paper barely eluded the sheriff. Then Publisher Lamade organized a lottery (legal in those days), with prizes of a piano, a gold watch, a marble-top chamber suite, a rifle, a silk dress pattern. Four coupons clipped from Grit bought a chance. Few months later the paper was out of debt; its circulation (initially 1,500) was 14,000. The three proprietors shook hands, raised their own wages from...
...defects in present methods there are fundamental advantages in the American form of practice which need to be strengthened. It is not necessary to substitute for the present efforts a paternalistic plan ill adapted to the philosophy of American life, but rather to encourage the evolution of a pattern which will embrace the desirable features of our present methods and the correction of their defects...
...Said a Mouthful (First National) is an infinitely less handsome picture than The Kid from Spain (see col. 2) but it follows the same pattern. Instead of being forced by circumstance and his own idiocy to be a bullfighter, its addled hero (Joe E. Brown) finds himself the favored entrant in a marathon swimming race. This is a predicament: he does not know how to swim...