Word: junket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barking orders to police cars by radio as he tears around Tokyo in his "Police Station On Wheels," slim, high-strung Chief of Police Shohei Fujinuma looks the picture of a genial, super-progressive 20th Century Japanese. One day last week the visiting puppet Emperor of Manchukuo, whose State junket to Tokyo has cost Japan $1,000,000 (TIME, April 15), departed laden with $150,000 worth of gifts, observing with Chinese dryness, "I should like to repeat this visit soon." Next morning Police Chief Fujinuma called in Japanese reporters, publicly sighed short pants of relief and gave them their...
BRAVE MR. BUCKINGHAM - Dorothy Kunhardt - Harcourt, Brace ($1). A toy Indian made of Nugg could always say, in spite of calamities, "THAT DIDN'T HURT." Nonsense with a moral, for children (and adults) by the author of Junket Is Nice...
...Tourists are promised "visits to hospitals clinics, sanatoriums, theatres, art galleries, museums, meetings with the leader of the Medical World in Russia and else where, direct contact with the Russian system of Medical Practice, a glimpse of the Russian Industrialization and Collectivization, its methods and developments." Excuse for the junket: the 15th International Physiological Congress meeting in Leningrad and Moscow...
...tanker Bacchus, breaking her portholes, throwing 60 barrels of wine and a loading crane into the harbor. Day before 200 miles to the west at Mostaganem, Algeria, 300 stoned the City Hall. From Paris last week Minister of the Interior Marcel Régnier, glad for a holiday junket away from France's internal problems, set out for Algeria "to investigate the situation...
...Commission spent $65,000, heard 200 witnesses, filled 4,500 pages with testimony, sent Chairman Howell on a fine European junket. Last week it filed a 254-page report containing 102 suggestions which President Roosevelt sent to Congress with a short, lukewarm message. It was painfully apparent to the six Commissioners that the President was much less interested in their findings now that public feeling over the airmail contract cancellations had subsided than he was a year ago when he solemnly launched them on their labors. Noncommittal was he in his message to Congress on such Commission recommendations...