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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor alone, and can hamstring the politicians, had wavered. The Army was last week engaged in annual "Grand Maneuvers." Suddenly at night a typhoon burst upon Tokyo, plunged the Capital into darkness as power lines were torn down, silenced telephones and telegraphs, engulfed 30,000 flimsy houses. Japan must expand, say her sabre-rattlers, because of her "population pressure." This is exerted by a population roughly half as great as that of the entire U. S. cooped up on islands of less total area than California and with only half that State's cultivated area. Dainty little Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto...
...present British governmental policies are in the hands of the "maiden aunts," according to H. N. Brailsford writing in the current New Republic. The maiden aunt, he says, "can do nothing, create nothing, not can she expand her inherited income; so she hoards and pinches herself" --so also the National government. The upper and middle classes have joined hands and have adopted a policy of complete retrenchment, throwing over-board the more masculine method of expansion. It was largely a class war in which the Labor Party lost out to the coalition of the Tory and Liberal parties...
...reasonable readjustment of intergovernmental debts promises far greater material benefits to the American people than the direct income which would be received if the payment could be made in full. employment and the earnings of American labor would be increased, and the profits of agriculture and industry would certainly expand...
...House last December. No professional banker, and lacking expert qualifications, he approached his legislative job as a layman unfettered by technique or tradition. Early in the session he put through the House measures to increase the capitalization of the Farm Loan Bank system, establish the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and expand the credit and currency facilities of the Federal Reserve System (the Glass-Steagall bill). Much of this legislation was put into his hands by the Republican Administration as part of President Hoover's relief program. He expeditiously piloted it through the House under a non-partisan agreement...
...plump and matronly Widow Alice Foote MacDougall who, at 65, owns eight restaurants (seven in Manhattan, one in Rye, N. Y.), sells her teas, coffees, cocoas, jellies, relishes, pickles and preserves in some 300 stores. Two months ago she made plans to offer stock in her enterprise, to expand (TIME, March 7). Apparently little stock was sold for last week Mrs. MacDougall heard that "friendly" receiverships had been granted for four of the affiliated restaurant companies of Alice Foote MacDougall, Inc., her holding company. Blamed in the petition were the Depression and "a change in the public's taste...