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...single-minded aristocrats who officer the Japanese Army made odd alliance three years ago with Japan's Depression-ridden farmers, whose sons happen to fill the Army ranks. Farmers and officers, both poor and oldfashioned, unite in hating all that Westernization has brought Japan except the guns. They hate democracy, free capitalism, politics, graft, social unrest. Without claiming to know much about economics, they feel that Japan could have both low taxes for farmers and a huge defense budget. Let the Emperor bleed the capitalists! Last week with conspiratorial secrecy, the officers rushed through the Government presses...
...France of newly-crowned Tsar Nicholas II who came to throw a magnificent bridge across the Seine in memory of his father Tsar Alexander III. Today le Pont Alexandre-Trois is still the most magnificent in Paris and across it in his long-snouted Renault limousine M. Barthou has ridden in animated conversation with Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, the roly-poly one time traveling salesman who is now Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...March 27). That was the only time that Dr. Meissner faced a dilemma in which his past, present and future chief might be said to be simultaneously involved. Last week, buttoned tightly into his impeccable cutaway, he moved about the diplomatic reception with stiff-necked majesty. He alone had ridden every storm of the last eleven years and he is still riding high. Awkward in the formal clothes he had to wear for the diplomats, Hitler sweated and was visibly ill at ease. Deftly Dr. Meissner shunted his new Chief out on a balcony for fresh...
Tight Britches suffers from an attempt to make it a second Tobacco Road, a sociological study of the hardy and poverty-ridden Anglo-Saxons of North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountain country. So esoteric is the idiom that a glossary is included with the program. "Swivvetty" means nervous; "upscuddle," quarrel; "hippin," diaper; "gaum," disorder; "furriner," any outsider...
...James Mars Langham, writer of astrological forecasts for cult-ridden Southern California, advised his clients last week: ''While 1935 looks like a better year with rising stock prices, there is danger of a preceding lower level, until the disturbing effects of the Uranus-Jupiter 180° aspect is over...