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...daughter of the prominent Imai family and since there were no sons in his family took his wife's name according to custom. The deficiency of sons was promptly remedied. Today Gosuke Imai has two sons and two daughters, by one of his sons is the proud ancestor of six grandsons...
...Japanese young man who last week was journeying exuberantly through the U.S. Shozen Nakayama, 28, is Patriarch of Tenrikyo, a Shinto sect claiming 5,000,000 followers throughout the world. Shinto ("The Way of the Gods") is Japan's indigenous religion, a ceremonial system of nature-worship and ancestor-worship. It contains little of theology save belief in immortality, but acquired a religious guise during its long subordination to Buddhism. There are two forms of Shintoism, one non-sectarian and ancillary to the State, the other sectarian and divided into 13 officially-recognized groups, plus many smaller, unofficial ones...
...duties to his assistant. Anne L. Lawless, known to her colleagues as "Orchid Annie." Manhattan's social writing dean is an elderly gentleman with a walrus mustache-Frank Leslie Baker of the Times. His department is supposed to admit to print all creeds providing they can claim an ancestor who lived in the U. S. before the Civil War. More colorful than their dean are Maury Henry Riddle Paul ("Cholly Knickerbocker") and Baron George Wrangel ("Billy Benedick") of Hearst's American and Journal, respectively. The Baron, 30, is a nephew of famed "White Russian" General Peter Nicholaievich Wrangel...
Surgeon General Rossiter is third of his family to hold his new rank. Surgeon General Jonathan M. Foltz who served under President Grant was his mother's cousin. His ancestor William Brown was George Washington's Surgeon General at Valley Forge. In January Surgeon General Rossiter completed 30 years in the Navy...
...Homer William] Hall of Illinois (paternal ancestor) has introduced a bill in this session. now in the Ways & Means Committee of the House, which if passed will make it compulsory that all gasoline used in the U. S. for fuel purposes be blended with grain alcohol made from agricultural products grown in the U. S. This would return a part of the lost market mentioned above, would solve the irritating surplus problems of the fruit growers of Florida and California, the cotton and rice growers of the South the wheat growers of the Northwest and the corn growers...