Word: goto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Viscount Shimpei Goto, 73, of Tokyo, "Roosevelt of Japan," sometime Foreign Minister, Civil Governor of Formosa, railway president, sanitation expert, subway builder. Boy Scout organizer, potent non-partisan politician; of cerebral hemorrhage; en route to Kyoto...
...politics from 1907 to 1917. From 1917 to 1922 he was director of the Training School for Public Service in New York, and during 1922 held the same position at the Institute of Municipal Research in Tokyo. After the Japanese earthquake in 1923, he became adviser to viscount Goto, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs. In 1926 he was president of the American Political Science Association...
...Japan, four aviators were in training for the long and arduous flight to the U. S. across the Pacific. "I consider myself already a dead man," was their oft-repeated toast. Last week one of the four, Yukichi Goto, went up as observer for another pilot. Their plane crashed and he was burned to death. Dauntless, his three comrades trained...
...Soviet Government, a most satisfactory treaty continuing the rights under which Japanese go every year to fish in Siberian waters. Though this vital document emerged through routine channels, its negotiation was rumored to have been greatly furthered, at Moscow, by the "unofficial" visit of that great statesman Viscount Shimpei Goto...
Viscount Shimpei Goto, onetime Mayor of Tokyo, arrived diffidently at Moscow. Cornered by correspondents, he protested: "I came here on no political, economic or indeed any specific mission." Pumped by a U. S. correspondent, he said...