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Check. But just as Araki seemed most certain of being rid of it, the League stiffened. Reason: U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson had caused his ambassador to remind all Foreign Powers that, in effect, the U. S. would not recognize conquest by force. The U. S. became the last obstacle in the Divine Emperor's way. But in the mind of Sadao Araki there is just one means (to date highly successful) to overcome obstacles: the sword of the Samurai...
Anybody afflicted with the midyear litters will have a fine chance to get rid of them during the rest of the bill...
Yale and Princeton require all their undergraduates to pay $20, directly or indirectly, for the use of athletic facilities, while Harvard, on the other hand, has always charged only those men who use its facilities. A blanket fee at Harvard, which would incidentally get rid of some of the present red tape, would induce many of the men, who do not now exercise, to utilize the recreational opportunities which they have hitherto for one or another reason chosen to ignore or avoid. In particular a number of the Freshmen, who, after taking their year of free compulsory exercise, balk...
...Were treated to a speech by Sir Robert Home, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which he implied that it might be well not only for Great Britain to pay the U. S. in gold but to get rid of her gold to such an extent that sterling would become purely a managed currency...
...would get rid of him by taking a potshot at him at the first opportunity...