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...photographers) : domineering, onetime newspaperman Seihin Ikeda; softspoken, old-fogyish Nagabumi Ariga; diplomatic, democratic Kikusaburo Fukui. It was on this Council's advice that the Senior Baron last week signed away 30,000,000 yen,† created by a squiggle of his august pen a Mitsui Foundation "to relieve distress among farmers and fishermen." Though Tokyo editors hailed this "largest private benefaction in the history of Japan," they made bold to comment that the House of Mitsui has been "a shining target for resentment against excessive capitalist profits." In Army circles satisfaction was tinged with comment that "the Mitsui should...
...lamented in the jewelry trade is the present want of buyers. Insurance firms report increases in jewelry insurance during the last few months, but trace them to people taking their jewels out of vaults and wearing them; not to new jewelry buying, despite a 40% increase in diamond imports. Distress stocks of defunct jewelry firms still hang unsold over the market and even the desire for possession of tangible goods as a hedge against Inflation has not led to any appreciable buying of jewels-possibly due partly to fear that if the South African diamond syndicate operating under that dominion...
...when Congress gets here there will be definite steps taken to relieve distress and to subsidize groups. Already the government is speeding up its machinery of loans in the hope that advances to be made on commodities will send the price level up. It was a forewarning of this western revolt which caused the President to decide suddenly to embark upon the gold buying policy which for months had been advocated by Professor Warren...
...coast of Nova Scotia one day last week, the crew of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police cruiser Scatarie peered into the offing with amazement at what they saw-a big bull moose swimming out to sea. Spume drenched his antlers, waves submerged his muzzle as he swam, obviously in distress, into the wind...
...Their gasoline gave out, they drifted for five days without food or water. On the sixth day, according to Warshauer, they sighted the S. S. Conte Biancamano, crack passenger liner of the Lloyd Sabaudo Line. When the steamer came within hailing distance, the castaways waved distress signals, shouted for help. Passengers and crew waved back, they said, but the liner sailed by without stopping. Two days later Coast Guardsmen rescued the drifting men, rushed them to a hospital where Tuchyner died. David Warshauer, permanently crippled by a gangrenous infection in both feet, brought suit for $200,000 against the Lloyd...