Word: ito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spunky little Empire at Geneva last week spoke Japan's Minister to Poland, cocky Dr. Fumio Ito. Down the League Mandates Commission's throat he rammed a Japanese thesis that because of "the undeniable fact of world economic interdependence, the League of Nations has not ceased to interpret the expression 'all members of the League' as meaning all the countries in the world and not only members of the League, as it seems at first glance...
...liberally sprinkled with crowns, with PRINCE MATCHABELLI in large type. He died six weeks ago in Manhattan, had seven Russian princes, Conde Nast and the Hearst Press's Cholly Knickerbocker among his honorary pall bearers. But he left no will and his next of kin is his brother, Ito Matchabelli, who still lives in Leningrad and who by U. S. law will share his estate with Prince Matchabelli's sister and niece. By Soviet law no Russian may inherit private property. If Manhattan courts should award to Brother Ito one-third of the 60% of the common stock...
...visitors for their country's good; and his Embassy plant, structure and personnel is one of the finest in the U. S. Foreign Service. Big as three city blocks, the diplomatic preserve in Tokyo rises in terraces up a hill once the property of the late, great Premier Ito, a hill violently shaken by the earthquake...
Died. Count Miyoji Ito, 76, wealthy conservative Japanese statesman; of stomach ulcers; in Tokyo. In the long bickering over the ratification of the London Naval Treaty in 1930 Count Ito lost to his enemy, Premier Hamaguchi. Japan signed and Count Ito, still a member of the Privy Council, went into virtual political retirement...
Voters amused themselves in Tokyo last week by such whimsies as voting for Chinese General Ma Chan-shan, for Japan's recently assassinated "Peace Man," Junnosuke Inoye, and for late, great Japanese such as Prince Ito ("the Bismarck of Japan"). One jokester voted "Give us rice!" But the Government of the Old Fox felt so strong that its censor passed these little jokes. The Old Fox could say: "A vote for the Seiyukai hastens the return of prosperity," while the opposition could only mutter innocuously: "One cannot feed on a fictitious boom...