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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Ambassador Grew was again back in Tokyo after four months at home. The America-Japan Society again gave the usual dinner. This time Joseph Grew made a speech which was not only unusual: it was virtually unprecedented in ambassadorial usage. The Ambassador gave his distinguished audience an earful which made many of them wish for deafness. He used an unofficial occasion to express an official, definitely controversial, exceedingly ticklish point of view. His words, he said, "came straight from the horse's mouth . . . and mind you, I know whereof I speak...
...August the U. S. abrogated the 1911 Trade Treaty with Japan. And after Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell retired from command of the China fleet and came home in August to get from Franklin Roosevelt a Distinguished Service Medal for keeping the Japanese in line so far as U. S. nationals were concerned, he kept the fireball rolling. "If the Japanese plans succeed," the Admiral warned, "I doubt very much whether there will be any business for Americans in China." The Ambassador's slap, which was no less stinging for being deft, not only reminded the Japanese that they...
...American tourists. Instead of arriving at an average rate of 5,000 per month, tourists scurried away from the Isles of Rest. On the Furness Monarch of Bermuda's, last trip-the ship was painted gloomy grey-she was loaded to the jack-stays with tourists hurrying home. Last week Bermudians were momentarily bucked to hear that the Holland-American luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam (capacity 1,000) had taken over the suspended Furness, Withy & Co. contract, and was sailing from Manhattan. They were let down again when they heard that the passenger list numbered 139, mostly natives returning...
...Page 1. The Zanesville News plant was modern and complete, cost $250,000. With latest photographic and engraving equipment and brand-new unit tubular twin-12 presses, it was capable of printing the News in color throughout. Trucks were ready to deliver it daily and Sunday to every home in Muskingum County. And thorough Earl Jones was prepared to spend money to put it over...
...News if it wishes. But if it did, the Litticks would obviously be annoyed-and to U. P., as to I. N. S., the Littick papers are the safest bet. According to U. P., the terms Earl Jones's Beach offered were "unreasonable," therefore not acceptable to the home office. Now Earl Jones threatens to sue, in the hope that he can compel U. P. to give him the wire for which he feels that he contracted. Meanwhile the Litticks are using all three services, and Beach has signed with Transradio Press for five years. Little Transradio (with only...