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Procter & Gamble announced last week that it had sold more Ivory soap, P. & G., Jap Rose, Camay, Chipso, Crisco and all other P. & G. products in the first three months of 1934 than in any other quarter in the 97 years of its history. In dollars its sales were only at the 1932 level but in tonnage the quarter set a record. Earnings were $4,031,000 against $2,451,000 in the same period of last year. To Chairman William Cooper Procter, who makes 40% of all U. S. soap, the future should have appeared fine and dirty...
...Some Jap or Russian...
Observers, noting Publisher Hearst's prediction for future reference, recalled with comfort that best opinion in Japan, as reported to last month's Institute of Pacific Relations meeting at Banff, is that a Russo-Jap war-almost equally rich in copy for Hearstpapers-will undoubtedly precede any Hearst-Jap...
...James O'Brien, 90, lawyer, diplomat, onetime (1907-11) Ambassador to Japan, onetime (1911-13) Ambassador to Italy; after long illness; in Grand Rapids, Mich. He it was who shaped the gentlemen's agreement between the U. S. and Japan preventing the influx of Oriental labor into Jap-fearing California...
Samples of S. O. E. D. definition: "Tycoon. 1863. (ad. Jap. taikun great lord or prince, f. Chinse ta great & kiun prince.) The title by which the shogun of Japan was described to foreigners...