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...sacred Japanese Emperor leads the parade of personalities in the newest Almanac de Gunther, as the author discusses his divinity, ancestry, poetry, wealth, family and advisers. After that, among many others, come the venerable, 89-year-old Prince Saionji, last of the Genro; jingoistic Baron Kuchiro Hiranuma, who as Premier has an earthquake-and-assassination-proof house; aristocratic former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who has made a "cult of languor"; Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, most prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses...
...swift, humorous, bathetic little piece of last century fiction. The result is an ingenuous jumble of history and fancy, its main theme being the story of how young Lawyer Lincoln, at 30, won his famous murder case with the help of the moon and a farmer's almanac, a trial that actually took place when Lincoln was nearing...
This week Mr. X was back in the hospital at Jackson, where for almost eight years he has puttered in the greenhouse wintering Jackson folks' plants for small tips, reading geographic magazines, historical novels and the World Almanac. Letters and inquiries by the thousands poured in to We, the People and to the hospital. At least 100 were sure they could identify...
...less than thirty colleges in the United States beast the "flaming crimson" as their college colors, according to latest spectral statistics compiled by the 1939 World Almanac...
...exact data, that it L; required reading in astronomy at Harvard and Smith. It went to 125,000 subscribers last year, many of them in cities. Says New Hampshire Governor Francis P. Murphy in a typical reader's testimonial: ". . . Just so long as The Old Farmer's Almanac keeps coming out regularly I shall be reminded that, after all, this world is in many ways the same old world that our fathers knew...