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Junnosuke Inouye was the ablest economist in Japanese public life. Minister of Finance in 1924 and from 1929 to 1931, his drastic economies lifted Japan out of her first post-War depression and shoved the country back on the gold standard. He believed that Japan could have remained on the gold standard if the army and navy chiefs had accepted a drastic cut in their budget appropriations, and said so. Somebody bombed his home in February 1931. The Wakatsuki Cabinet to which he belonged was forced out of office eleven weeks after the invasion of Manchuria began...
...Publicist as well as university president are the titles Dr. Butler gives himself in his Who's Who article, longest of any living U. S. citizen. Publicist he is, not only for Columbia (which has, besides, one of the nation's ablest press agents in James T. Grady) but for everything else in which he believes. Often and ?Dr. Butler's honors other than scholastic include: Officier de la Legion d' Honneur, 1906, Commandeur, 1912, Grand Officier, 1921; Order of Red Eagle (with star) of Prussia, 1910; Grand Commander of the Royal Order of the Redeemer, ist Class (Greece...
...selection of the delegates continued to cause President Hoover a good deal of trouble. Circumstances severely limited his choice of members. The Geneva conference would last seven or eight months; Secretary of State Stimson did not wish to be away from his office so long. Dwight Whitney Morrow, ablest of U. S. conference negotiators, was dead. Elder Statesman Elihu Root was too old and fragile for the job. Charles Evans Hughes was out of reach on the Supreme Court. Henry Prather Fletcher, shrewd diplomat, refused to serve unless, it was reported, he was made chairman of the delegation. No less...
...fashionable apartment hotel near city limits, went Francis A. Donaldson III, a muscular youth of 25 with considerable social èclat. He went there to try to settle a long quarrel with Horace Allen, a retired and impoverished woolen goods manufacturer, and his son Edward, 23, one of the ablest gentlemen riders in the East. Both the Donaldsons and the Aliens knew that young Donaldson and Rose Allen, 18, were lovers. Donaldson and her brother had been schoolmates at Haverford and bitterly disliked each other. As the altercation grew heated, Father Allen said afterwards. Francis knocked down Edward. Edward picked...
Principal and Mistress of the little Red school are Comrade Mike Gruzenberg and his wife Comrade Fanny. Famed under his alias "Borodin," Comrade Gruzenberg is considered throughout Russia the ablest Red instigator of foreign revolutions. In the East his silver tongue and Moscow's gold coin made possible the revolutionary conquest of all China by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, now President. Today the Chinese Government, which broke with Russia to establish friendly relations with other Great Powers (TIME, April 25, 1927), is again angling for Moscow...