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...Hamaguchi, the onetime Premier whose concessions to peace in the London Naval Treaty cost him his life; Second Junnosuke Inouye, the soundest and most brilliant Japanese Finance Minister in a generation; and Third Dr. Dan?to name only the Big Three. Biggest as a Peace Man, from the practical standpoint, was Banker Dan. He had thrown the weight of Mitsui Gomel Kaisha against war, unsuccessfully...
...needs of the Athletic Association from the standpoint of new buildings are not at all comparable now to what they were five or six years ago. . . . On the occasion of the Harvard-Yale hockey game, however, it is timely to call attention to the fact that Harvard's next required building is a covered ice rink, in which varsity contest with Yale, and in which House hockey, general recreational hockey and ice skating can take their place on the Harvard athletic program...
Around two sides of the terrain bends the Whangpoo River, thus putting much of the theatre of warfare at the mercy of Japanese fleet guns. Japan also possessed command of the air. Her land artillery was superior to the Chinese. Therefore, General Uyeda was not, from the Japanese standpoint, unduly optimistic when he planned to complete his entire drive within 18 hours. The drive was timed to begin on Japanese election day (see p. 22) and Premier Inukai of Japan assumed that in such circumstances his Seiyukai Party could not fail to win the Japanese Election...
...architects together with historical and critical comment. Among the contributors are Professor Henry Russell Hitchcock of Wesleyan University; Mr. Johnson, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. director of the Museum of Modern Art, and Lewis Mumford. Mr. Mumford is writing a survey of housing problems and their solution from an international standpoint...
Desperately resolved to raise money and avert default, the Dominion of Newfoundland recently offered to sell Labrador to Canada (TIME, Dec. 28), later hinted that rich U. S. citizens might be invited to lease Labrador-than which, from a British standpoint, nothing could be more deplorable. In St. John's one night last week harassed Newfoundland Premier Sir Richard Anderson Squires sat up to wee hours bickering and dickering with representatives of a syndicate of four Canadian banks. Was it a sale? Next day in Montreal, Canada, where most of Newfoundland's fiscal news breaks first, eager newshawks...