Word: authority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inside Asia,* published this week, Author Gunther tries out this technique on Asia and produces much the same kind of book: a lively, gossipy, not too profound but interesting encyclopedia of present-day Asia. Jumping-off place for Inside Europe was Germany; Inside Asia begins with Japan. From Japan, the book takes the reader to Manchukuo, makes a brief stopover in Siberia, moves on to China and then, going south and east by way of the Philippines and The Netherlands Indies, rounds the Malay Peninsula for a look at Siam, India, Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, Burma, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans...
...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...
...Bridegroom Cometh better dramatizes Mary's loss of faith than her rebirth. But it is provocative testimony to Author Frank's thesis that U. S. life is deeply grained with religious tradition...
...Beta Kappa Poet will be John Crowe Ransom, Professor of Poetry at Kenyon College, Ohio and author of several books of verse...
...Strait, author of "Union New" and former New York Union correspondent in Geneva, Switzerland spoke recently at the University as guest lecturer in the Government Department explaining his democratic union idea which has received widespread acclaim...