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...reports that Russia had massed 70,000 Red Army soldiers near Vladivostok and more along her Manchurian frontier. Therefore more Japanese troops must be rushed into Manchuria?but how was the civilian Cabinet of Premier Ki Inukai to pay the cost? Japanese business has seldom been so bad. Silk, that leading Japanese export, slumped to a new low price last week. There remained only one more practicable move: "controlled inflation...
Informally correspondents were told: "The most serious feature of the situation in Japan at present is the collapse of agricultural values, including that of raw silk, to a price level at which the farmers who make up half Japan's population simply cannot repay the bankers. The Government, conscious that the farmers are laboring under an unbearable load, hopes to lighten this burden by a devalorization of the yen, but how this is to be accomplished has not been decided...
Would he wear silk knee breeches to court...
...balls at the rail for a run of 163, then carelessly missed the first ball in an easy carom. It was Poensgen's turn to be nervous. He sniffed at a glass of ice-water, stared warily at the ceiling, plucked at the sleeves of his tight black silk jacket. His longest runs were 50 and 12. Soussa...
...Wilson for an anti-War editorial. But he went to War himself. Serious, sardonic, rather shy, today he says: 'T was just as bad a lunatic as anyone." In 1921 Nathan Straus Jr., a liberal, almost Socialistic Democrat, was elected to the New York State Senate, storming Manhattan's "Silk Stocking District" during a Republican landslide. He kept his seat until 1926. He has long been in the crockery business. His company, Nathan Straus & Sons Inc., is the biggest U. S. maker of hotel & restaurant equipment. He is an Elk, a Moose. Most Manhattanites regard him, chiefly for his long...