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Faced with this minor mystery, sympathetic friends concluded that ''Jimmy'' must have been elated that afternoon to the point of turning back the register and inserting himself ahead of the King-Emperor...
...Japan not only the fighting services, but also the Emperor, the peasants and the proletariat are out to soak the bourgeois rich. Before the soaking begins this week, the Diet was edified by a discourse from ingenious Mr. Koki Hirota. A stone-cutter's son, he once tried to get a job in the household of Captain John Joseph Pershing, then U. .S. military attache in Tokyo, who turned him down because "his English is so poor." Today Koki Hirota is Foreign Minister. "Please tell General Pershing," said he not long ago to Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, "that Hirota...
...When the Emperor of India got to the part of his speech in which he announced that, after seven years of toil, the India Report was ready (see col. 2). His Majesty said with visible emotion: "I pray that both your Houses, upon whom now rests the responsibility for deciding these issues, may approach the task before them with the single aim of furthering the well-being of my Empire...
...warrior President of a nation of warriors General Cárdenas has named the son born to him last May after the last Aztec warrior Emperor of Mexico, famed Cuauhtemoc...
...swank French Casino. Johann Strauss III is 68, a grandson of Johann Strauss I, a nephew of Johann Strauss II whom he greatly resembles. Johann III has the old Strauss way of conducting while fiddling. He inherited his uncle's job as Court Ball conductor for old Emperor Franz Josef. But for most Viennese his chief claim to fame is his name. His compositions (he brought "ein trunksful'') are mediocre and rarely played...