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...avert an overthrow of the Japanese Constitution, an upset which loomed as a distinct possibility, the aged Prince Saionji came clop-clopping on his wooden sandals back into Japan's political arena last week. Crisis factors which perplexed this last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen" and made Prince Saionji delay for three whole days his advice to the Sublime Emperor included...
...skyscraper and treasure chest were pleasant things. The reality was not. It was the same reality which has caused many a semi-retired executive to return to his desk, including John North Willys. Errett Lobban Cord, Henry Holiday Timken, Otto Hermann Kahn. It was the reality which has so upset Mr. Doherty's fellow utilitarian, Samuel Insull...
Senor Davila ceased to be Ambassador and returned to Santiago when the Chilean Government of President Carlos Ibanez was upset by a coup d'état (TIME, Aug 3). Last week the new government of President Agustin Justo tried to suppress the Davila manifesto, stigmatized it as revolutionary. Senor Davila, who thought it best to quit his handsome home and go into hiding, declared in his manifesto, "Present conditions in Chile warrant a trial of State Socialism adapted to our national peculiarities. If we can adopt the useful residue of the French revolution, to mold our primitive political system...
...word, M. Herriot's party might be called "Liberal," has long been tantalizingly close to power. A swing in the French electorate is generally slow, but all M. Herriot needed was that the mass of voters should swing last week slightly to the Left-just far enough to upset Premier Tardieu's Right-Centre coalition and make it possible for Mayor Herriot to get together a Left-Centre coalition with himself as Premier. Experts agreed that a swing of only 40 seats to Right or Left in the Chamber might decide the issue-this with 3,617 candidates...
...finally general manager of the company. When, two years ago, Paramount-Famous-Lasky became Paramount-Publix, Mr. Kent was made a vice president. From then on he kept a finger in every department. As a salesman and distributor he gained the confidence of the exhibitors and when the Government upset the "uniform standard contract'' in 1930 he was instrumental in having the 5-5-5 conference (five independents, five chain exhibitors, five distributors) reach a new agreement. Members of the conference still recall his fluent arguments and when he resigned from Paramount he was delighted to receive resolutions...