Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognize the name of George Stoddard either, but he is one of the fastest rising men in U.S. education. At 49, he has already been, in succession, one of the nation's top child psychologists, New York State Commissioner of Education, chairman of the U.S. Education Mission to Japan, and one of five U.S. delegates to UNESCO. Last week, after ten months on the job, he was inducted as president of the University of Illinois, second largest...
Advice to the Victim. On the way to Japan, on the U.S. Education Mission, Stoddard kept insisting to his colleagues that the Emperor ought to be hanged or at least jailed. But in Tokyo, he found himself recommending to his unsuspecting "victim" the right U.S. woman tutor (Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining) for the Crown Prince. And he also helped draft democratic reforms for Japanese education: popularly elected school boards, a simplified alphabet,wider public schooling...
...Japan last week, Buddhists joined with representatives of other Japanese religions at the "All-Japan Religious Peace Conference" to announce: "We condemn ourselves for our guilt and humbly confess our faults before all the peoples of the world and pledge ourselves to make a new start...
...year, not counting what is spent on atomic and other secret research. These figures are the conclusion reached after a worldwide survey conducted by the New York Times under direction of its able Military Editor Hanson W. Baldwin. He believes that despite the disappearance of Germany and Japan as military powers, there are more soldiers today than...
...offices telling officials that if the Russians would not play ball, then the U.S. must organize its zone of Korea so effectively that, when the occupying armies pulled out, the Communists who now run northern Korea would not be able to swallow the whole country. Since Korea, now that Japan is demilitarized, can be made the base for dominating the coast of east Asia, Hodge's message began to get a hearing...