Word: hideo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subsidize painting, particularly murals, it was obvious that Ellis Island was an ideal place for a project. The aliens' dining hall was a room 98 ft. by 68 ft., with bare walls crying for decoration. First shot at this ambitious scheme was given to a Japanese artist named Hideo Noda. Before final execution his designs had to be approved by the local Immigration Commissioner...
...sooner was Muralist Hideo Noda's cartoon submitted to him than Commissioner Reimer blossomed out as a stickler for artistic detail. The Noda mural was promptly rejected because Negro cotton pickers were shown wearing turtlenecked sweaters and creased trousers, because the creature pulling a poor blackamoor's farm cart seemed to be a full-blooded Percheron stallion. Artist Noda threw up his hands and his job, went back to California...
...Government, investigating its affairs, indicted its Governor, Imperial Rayon's president and eight other officers on charges of having sold Imperial Rayon stock to themselves and friends below the market price. The trail of corruption wound into the Ministry of Finance and to the Vice Minister himself, Hideo Kuroda. But Kuroda, a career man, not a politician, was a member of the First Order of Merit and hence above suspicion. The Government was obliged to ask and get the Emperor's permission to prosecute him. The police called meritorious Hideo, sat him down for questioning, locked...
Once again Premier Saito's Cabinet seemed about to collapse under him. His veteran Finance Minister, Viscount Korekiyo Takahashi, Hideo's Cabinet boss, had a resignation ready in his top drawer. Premier Saito told newshawks: "It's one damned thing after another...
...Japan is now in the midst of one of the greatest crisis of her existence since 1860, and the way in which she emerges from it will determine whether or not she will continue in her rapid march of industrial and political progress," said Hideo Kishimoto, instructor in Japanese, in an interview yesterday...