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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson is a man of the mysterious West whose mental processes seem more outlandish to the East every time he sends a note, Japanese could half fear and half believe last week that Washington is leagued with Moscow and Nanking. Staggering would be such an alliance: the world's largest nation (Russia) plus the most populous (China) j)lus the richest (U. S.), and all against Japan...
Fortnight ago the Herex Courtesy Reporter, in convivial mood, stepped to the microphone of Station KYW to report on Chicago manners. A legion of loudspeakers roared his words, which temporarily cost him his job: "I've been north and I've been south, an' east an' west, but I'll be damned if I can find a polite man with a Herald-Examiner...
...method of news transportation still lives in Japan. Newshawks and photographers in the field often send back copy and film by carrier pigeon. Besides morning & evening editions of Mainichi and Nichi-Nichi in Japanese, Motoyama published a daily Mainichi in English, made it the largest newspaper in that language East of Suez. Other Motoyama publications: a Sunday Mainichi, a weekly Braille Mainichi for the blind, the bi-monthly Economist, the monthly Cine-education, the Mainichi Year Book and Japan Today & Tomorrow, a glorified Chamber of Commerce brochure in English...
...occasionally writing editorials. Motoyama was chiefly interested in the financial and business direction of his newspapers. His handsome, patrician, heavily-lined face, kindly and visionary, was in evidence at his Osaka office until the end. Though his mind and heart roamed the earth, he stayed always in the Far East. Said he: "I am too old to see the world, so I see it through the eyes of my young men, who go everywhere...
...Joao-Frederico, Normano, lecturer on Economics and associate director of the Bureau of Economic Research in South America, will be arraigned in Federal Court at, 10.30 0'clock this morning on charges of forgery and obtaining $750,000 under false pretenses in Germany. Normano is being held in the East Cambridge House of Correction without ball pending investigation to discover whether is really Dr. Isaak Lewin, a German banker who absconded in 1929. Admittance was denied a CRIMSON reporter who attempted to interview him on Saturday...