Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guarantees against a repetition of such attacks. Since Japan's Emperor Hirohito, to Japanese minds, is a divinity who is not of the Government but above it, the knottiest problem posed for trie Japanese was 1) how to bring the matter to his attention or 2) how to avoid doing so without offending the U. S. By week's end Washington was assured that the Roosevelt note had been brought to Hirohito's attention by Premier Fumimaro Konoye...
...route from Kobe to Manila, steaming down the rock-strewn coast of Formosa to avoid the Japanese-controlled war zone in Taiwan Strait, the Dollar Line's 21,936-ton President Hoover grounded last week a few hundred yards off Japan's Hoishoto Island 500 miles north of Manila. There, with 1,000 passengers and crew safely ashore and on other ships, the $8,000,000 liner was slowly being battered to pieces...
...went to J. P. Morgan & Co., but E. B. Smith enjoyed the reflected glory and a fat slice of every I. T. & T. deal. Some of its other flotations like Roosevelt Field, Inc. and R. Hoe & Co. added nothing to its name, but E. B. Smith managed to avoid the subsequent attention lavished by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee on most of its peers...
There is another side to the picture. The Japanese policy will probably be one of indirect control of China, through puppet governments, in an effort to avoid the difficulty just mentioned. Success in such a policy will require inexhaustible forbearance and finesse, more than can be expected of the military mind; but temporary success in large areas of China is not improbable. Chinese nationalism has only just begun to wipe out the old opportunist individualism, and the Japanese will be able to trot out a horde of antiquated politicians of the "Chinese traitor" class, who for a full rice bowl...
...case of the death of a student, his roommate or nearest relative must hand in his study card, with a statement to that effect, written legibly or typewritten, at University C on or before Tuesday, December 14, in order to avoid liability for the charge of $5 for late filling of the study card...