Word: kobes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan-born Alvin K. Aurell, son of a Kansas-born missionary, today branch manager in Yokohama for Singer Sewing Machine Co. Mr. Aurell was not exactly alarmed. Singer's labor troubles in Japan began more than a year ago, caused the company to close its Osaka and Kobe branches last November. Last week Manager Aurell sat calmly eating his lunch when a large motor truck drove up to his branch, dumped a load of cordwood in front of the door...
...AMERICANS ARE SPYING IN JAPAN!" splashed out Tokyo's chauvinistic Kokumin Shimbun last week, exposed the horrid fact that pictures of Japanese business buildings in Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe have recently been taken by branch officials of Manhattan's far flung National City Bank...
...press campaign against the bank. "Count Uchida replied that an investigation is already under way. ..." To incredulous Japanese, National City's Tokyo Branch Manager Daniel Waugh kept explaining: "We took the pictures for advertising purposes! National City wants to advertise the recent industrial developments in Tokyo. Osaka and Kobe. Don't you understand? Such advertising will be for the good of Japan!" "Overzealous Persons." Understanding not one whit, the semi-official Osaka radio station JOBK next day joined Japanese newspapers in spreading charges that National City's photographs were taken for the use of U. S. bombers...
...Japan came to the fore in silk. After the Japanese earthquake in 1923, Japanese silk deliveries were stopped for two months. But Gerli & Co. arranged to ship silk from Kobe almost immediately and this was the real opening of a silk market outside of Yokohama. Emanuel Gerli is 73. Active spokesman for the firm in his nephew, Paolino Gerli, 41, a vice president. He came to the U. S. from Italy in 1905, later went to Japan where he dealt in silk for his own account from 1919 to 1921. In 1922 he joined E. Gerli & Co. Although the firm...
...Rome, Perugia, Florence, Budapest and Berlin, streets were renamed for George Washington. In Kobe, Osaka and Kyoto cherry trees were planted in his honor. At Paris, Naples and Sofia there were public receptions. President von Hindenburg of Germany felicitated President Hoover. Throughout the U. S. there was much patriotic ado. Reason: the 200th anniversary of his birth...