Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a future being the surest leg up in Britain to swift promotion for a smart young politician. Reputedly Hon. Bill attracted Sir Samuel's attention by his energy and gumption as private secretary to Lord Lytton on the commission which went to the Far East, reported on Japan's grab of Manchukuo (TIME...
...There Are Still Judges!" Instead of the street-stabbings and pistol play which Germany, Spain and Japan have recently seen as their regimes changed, French moderation made Paris almost dull last week, though Nobel Prizeman Dr. Alexis Carrel was on hand to call what was happening a "French Revolution" and to attribute the lack of bloodshed to the French people's "unusually strong nervous system...
...Endeavor. He runs a publishing house with offices in Chicago and Philadelphia, keeps his friends in formed of his activities in periodic news letters which he calls "Rainbow-Graphs." A firm believer in music as a religious force, Homer Rodeheaver lined up a number of young people in Korea, Japan and the Philippines in 1929, staked them to musical education in the U. S. One of these, a Korean who fortnight ago received a doctor's degree from Chicago Musical Dramatic Conservatory, changed his name to Rody Hyun in honor of his benefactor...
...President Manuel Quezon, Roy Howard again produced a front-page sensation by asserting that the Islands wanted, not full independence, but permanent commonwealth status. Three months later the snappy little publisher was inside the Kremlin, drawing from steely Dictator Joseph Stalin the hypothetical circumstances under which Russia would fight Japan...
...racer, Europe too "went Douglas." By last week, the booming Douglas plant at Santa Monica had delivered not only 81 DC-2's in the U. S. at $80,000 apiece, but 49 in Holland, Java, Batavia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Australia, China, Japan...