Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Oriental diplomacy and even war are nine-tenths Face, Japan's greatest shock aside from losing potential armed support against Russia was that Germany had not whispered a word of warning. Ambassador to Berlin Hiroshi Oshima hurried around to see Joachim von Ribbentrop soon after he got back...
Of all the nations affected by the Soviet-German Pact, Japan was hardest hit. Before it, she had been a second-rate power with first-rate connections; after it, she was a no greater power with no connections at all. Nobuyuki Abe certainly realized it. "Japan," he said, "will have...
Naturally the Chinese, who grasp eagerly for any straws in the international wind, were elated last week. As the British stiffened in Hong Kong, blowing up bridges joining the Crown Colony with Japanese-held territory, the Japanese simultaneously weakened in Shanghai, where 6,000 troops had been landed with the...
Harris De Haven Connick the Fair opened with $4,000,000 more debt than anticipated and it could not have been completed in time for the opening had not Standard Oil Co. of California and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. put up loans of $800,000 and $200,000 respectively.
The new director shook up the management. In the Fair's outdoor plaza, Temple Compound, Dr. Edwin Franko Goldman, whose brass band had been playing classical music to crowds of around 1,500 a day, was replaced by swing band leaders, notably Benny Goodman whose hot band played to...