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...Minister to Persia, President Roosevelt chose William Harrison ("Bill") Hornibrook of Utah, Minister to Siam under President Wilson. The Administration owed quiet, erudite Mr. Hornibrook, publisher of the Salt Lake Times, a double debt. A militant Democrat but no Mormon, he published last year a tract called "Thirty Reasons Why Smoot Should Be Defeated." Onetime Senator Smoot admits the pamphlet defeated his reelection. By substituting Senator James Watson's name for Smoot's, the tract was also used to good effect in the Indiana Senatorial campaign...
Every Japanese schoolboy worth his patriotic salt dreams nowadays of "the big war." It may be against Russia (see p. 14 ), or against the U. S., but the Sublime Emperor must triumph, the white barbarians must be brought under enlightened rule and the Japanese schoolboy must die a glorious death. To help him dream such dreams is the mission of dozens of retired Japanese officers who pepper the Empire with brightly printed pamphlets such as Dream of War Between the United States and Japan by fire-eating Lieut. Commander Kyosuke Fukunaga of the Imperial Navy, retired. Last week horrified...
...annual rental of $2,000,000. and bought up Chicago Union Stock Yards. He had a hand in building up Bessemer &; Lake Erie, which was sold to U. S. Steel Corp. At one time or another he has owned some 46 carriers including Ann Harbor, Pere Marquette. Denver &; Salt Lake. His son Norman helped found the Wartime Lafayette Escadrille, was killed in France in 1916. Mr. &; Mrs. Prince gave $200,000 to the Washington National Cathedral for a memorial chapel where their son's body now lies (TIME, April 29, 1929). Frederick Henry Prince at 74 is stocky, white...
During the Revolution Harvard Hall was used for the storage of army rations including barrels of salt beef contributed by neighboring towns. The building was of great use to the commissary department as its kitchen was the largest in New England. The troops were quartered in Massachusetts Hall...
Unperturbed and backed by his wife, the eldest sister in China's famed "Soong Dynasty" (TIME, Dec. 11), Finance Minister Kung announced with stoical aplomb that he was "considering" a 28% upping of China's most vital and widely detested tax, that on salt. To collect this tax Dr. Kung's brother-in-law and predecessor as Finance Minister, famed T. V. Soong, organized a special army of "salt tax troops" and was believed to have screwed out of the peasantry the last copper cash that they would pay without rebellion...