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...Hachiro Arita quietly slipped over Japan's recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, figuring that last week the British certainly would not notice. In Tokyo an individual carrying dynamite, a razor-edged spear and a fistful of petitions confessed: "For three days I have been try ing to kill the Premier." Simultaneously in Japanese political circles the more or less gagged Parliament was reported so restive at the risks the Cabinet is running with its pro-German and pro-Italian pacts (TIME. Dec. 7) and its seizure of Tsingtao, that Japan's dominant militarists were about...
...Phillips Academy in Massachusetts. Charles P. Taft, Ohio-born, chief among Governor Landon's advisers, prepared at Taft school in Connecticut. Son of the 27th President of the United States, Charles Taft was initiated into Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi at Yale. He married the daughter of Ing Watch Company's president, fought for the United States a year in France, then earnestly fought for Y. M. C. A. and goal government in his native cinnati. Father of six children, Charles Taft will serve as a model for the figure of genuine Americanism. He believes in democracy...
...Romeo last spring might have guessed, the nation's No. 1 matinee idol does not have so easy a time with William Shakespeare as with Robert Sherwood Shocked and disappointed at Actor Howard's failure in the most ambitious and demanding male role on the English-speak ing stage, critics found the Howard Hamlet enervated, thoughtless, unilluminating...
Regal in a fur-trimmed, flamingo gown, Contralto Wettergren went through her usual Swedish rigmarole of demanding a kick in the rear for good luck on her open-ing night. Beauteous Mrs. Edward Morris performed this kickoff. Then Wettergren rippled through an aria from Thomas' Mignon, squatted rather than bowed to accept a bouquet of chrysanthemums from the Swedish Choral Society. But what brought the Chicago audience to its feet and earned Singer Wettergren five encores was a group of Swedish and Finnish songs. She sang these, according to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the business-like Journal of Commerce...
...Straus wrote a codicil to his will in which he withdrew these benefactions in these words: "The present Federal and State estate tax laws impose substantially increased tax burdens upon the estates of decedents and may under certain conditions cause undue hard ship and financial sacrifice and loss result ing from untimely sale and liquidation of assets of estates to provide for the pay ment of such taxes. The increased estate taxes upon the estates of decedents are devoted in large part to Governmental so cial programs. Under the circumstances now existing, I deem it advisable to cancel and revoke...