Word: deafness
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...characterize Ambassador Grew as "a trifle lame and slightly deaf." We who-have known Mr. Grew here for the year past and have seen him on all sorts of occasions' and even watched him play golf have had no idea that he was even a trifle lame. Anyhow he is an A No. 1 American ambassador. Every time he has made a speech since he came to Japan we have been proud of him and' proud of our country...
...shirker is square-faced Count Yasuya Uchida, until last week Japan's Foreign Minister. Thrice Foreign Minister in his prime, he was 67 and getting deaf last year when his Emperor called him back to gloss over Japan's Manchurian grab. Then he resigned as president of the South Manchuria Railway, a post that carried leadership of all Japanese interests in Manchuria, to direct the cocky demonstration of Japan's "right to Manchuria." By last week the Manchurian job was done and Count Uchida resigned to give way to a younger Foreign Minister, Koki Hirota, onetime Ambassador...
...texts rigidly secret. After grim days of extreme alarm, with police guarding banks, major business offices, electric power stations and waterworks, tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party. Out of their limousine stepped U. S. Ambassador & Mrs. Joseph Clark Grew, he a trifle lame and slightly deaf. Just as they reached the Premier's door bedlam broke loose. Japanese police with drawn pistols surrounded the Grews. Others brandished swords and screeched. "These people," someone shouted, "are assassins...
Suiting the action to the word, Banker Harriman did all these things as Dr. Jelliffe spoke: Mrs. Harriman who, being deaf, could hear nothing of the testimony, put her arm around her husband's shoulder to comfort...
Died. Benjamin Baker, 61, oldtime newshawk, economist, editor of The Annalist (financial weekly) since 1925; of a heart attack; in Hartsdale. N. Y. His predictions of the 1929 crash fell on deaf ears...