Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lives, and her father, Shunsaku Yamamoto, who long ago ran off with a geisha girl, pert Daughter Kimiko Yamamoto goes to visit Shunsaku, get his consent to her marriage. Up to this point, the plot of Kimiko somewhat resembles that of Universal's Three Smart Girls (TIME, Dec. 21). The end of the picture not only differs from its U. S. counterpart but offers a moral which in a U. S. script would strike the Hays organization dumb with horror. In the first place, Kimiko fails to negotiate the reconciliation. In the second, the reason for her failure...
...ordinary senses-in other words, clairvoyance and telepathy. The fact that extrasensory perception is an increasingly familiar concept among people who pay no attention to crystal-gazers and swamis is largely due to the rigorously controlled, long-continued experiments at Duke University of Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934). Lately Dr. Rhine has felt the need of a word of wider scope to designate not only telepathy and clairvoyance but any other "unusual capacities of mind that do not fit into the recognized order of things." He chose the word parapsychology, an importation from the German...
...with 47 ships, is Interlake Steamship Co., an affiliate of old & famed Pickands-Mather & Co., coal & iron. Notable among independent companies is the Tomlinson Fleet, founded in 1901 by Cleveland's crotchety George Ashley Tomlinson, 71, colleague of George A. Ball in the great Van Sweringen Deal (TIME, Dec. 14 et seq.), whose transportation interests were further enlarged fortnight ago when he became chairman of Missouri Pacific R. R. One of the 13 Tomlinson freighters is named Ball Brothers...
...European plan for a President to remain aloof, letting the Premier do the work, and to make only the stuffiest State visits abroad, but when "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman" Dr. Eduard Benes was elected President of Czechoslovakia (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935) everyone knew his way of doing things would be more on the American plan. Last week Dr. & Mrs. Benes arrived at Belgrade to face not the usual assemblage of many Serbian loafers rounded up by police and given a few coppers to cheer, but a mighty ovation such as President Roosevelt got in South America...
Burned at Nice three-and-a-half years ago was the famed $3,900,000 gambling casino Palais de la Mediterranee built by the late railroading Jay Gould's son Frank Jay (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933 et seq.). Burned at Juan-les-Pins last week was another Gould casino, with Frank Jay inside as flames burst from the stage. "Under Gould's personal direction," reported Associated Press, "the crowd was evacuated...