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Japanese affectionately call 78-year-old Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi "Daruma" after the pot-bellied Buddhist sage, symbol of good luck. Just now he is carrying on with the most colossal and appallingly unbalanced budget in Japanese history. Since Japan quit the gold standard (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) her yen has fallen to 36% of its par gold value but there has been no monetary inflation, no starting of the Japanese Treasury's printing presses. Last week Mr. Takahashi, who in his youth indentured himself to an Oakland, Calif, farmer to work for three years for a total wage...
...generally twice annually; tea dances, costume dances, -- shipwreck dances and poverty balls; House dinners on such occasions as Christmas and President Lowell's birthday, with skits following; plays, such as "The Shoemaker's Holiday," produced by the student and tutor members of the Eliot Elizabethan Club; economic societies; "Coffee Pot" discussion groups; musical societies; singing groups; and other discussion groups. For the most part these activities, which have arisen generally from the initiative of students, sometimes from that of tutors, have been very successful. Such activities will take care of themselves. Each House acquires its own peculiar atmosphere. The following...
James Roosevelt, "closest by blood and affection to the man who makes the appointments," last week continued to keep the Massachusetts patronage pot boiling. Thanks to the President's eldest son, a 28-year-old Haverhill drug clerk named John E. Donahue was made receiver for Essex National Bank at $4,000 per year. Receiver Donahue spent three years at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, later mixed prescriptions in his father's drug store. He was ardently "For-Roosevelt-Before-Chicago." Last year he was elected State Representative from a district that had not sent a Democrat...
...little fellows' day. Leaning out the windows of the Presidential Palace and joking with the crowd, Batista & friends had the time of their lives. Batista shouted so much that he developed a sore throat. The crowd liked their show. But they peered again into Cuba's pot and saw something else...
...somewhat lonely lump in Cuba's pot of ajiaco criollo, President Grau San Martin began to pick a Cabinet. He put in a customs house man, Jose Barquin, as Secretary of the Treasury; an obscure doctor, Antonio Guiteras, as Secretary of the Interior; the son of the famed discoverer of the yellow fever mosquito, Dr. Carlos J. Finlay as Secretary of Sanitation and Public Instruction; a rich architect and engineer, Eduardo J. Chibas, who was a de Cespedes man, as Secretary of Public Works. Meanwhile last week the rest of the hash was still boiling...