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Yonai. Smack next to the Prime Minister of Japan on such dress-shirt occasions as the formal opening of Parliament, sit the Minister of the Navy and the Minister of War. Other Cabinet officers form no more than a decorative background of gold lace. Since last February Japan's Navy Minister has been Admiral Mitsuniasa Yonai, or more formally Yoniuchi-a descendant of the samurai, member of the blue-blooded Satsuma clan and grandson of the extremely wealthy Baron Kentaro Okuma, developer of the South Manchuria Railway...
...limp that never left him. When he began peddling stove polish of his own manufacture, he made more money, soon owned a tailor shop, a grocery store, became a wholesaler for household goods, made a small fortune speculating in foodstuffs during the Civil War, a larger one importing petticoat lace from Switzerland. Needing little prompting, his sons, assured by their father that they would each make a million dollars, entered the business as soon as they got out of short pants...
...Packards. Like a Pullman. One of the kind with windows like a showcase. The kind you step into, instead of crawling into. In the front seat, a chauffer. In the back, two elderly ladies, carefully isolated from the hired helmsman by a glass partition. Black dresses, white lace collars and cuffs. Queen Mary hats. Windows scientifically opened two inches as an official welcome to balmy weather...
...bareheaded Princess Elizabeth in pink, pattering beside her father round the quarterdeck for a brisk after breakfast constitutional. At 10:30 a.m. with the cool skies rapidly clouding over, the first admirals' barges began to arrive for an official reception, and as more cocked hats and gold lace than Portsmouth harbor had seen for two decades assembled under the yacht's awning the Royal Marines Band burst into Irving Berlin's well-known ballad...
...another with a holy kiss." Only problem of import before the Dunkards last week was whether or not to allow radios in their homes, a matter which has come up every year since 1925. Though liberal Dunkards have succeeded in lifting restrictions against such "vanities" as automobiles, telephones and lace curtains, church members who keep musical instruments (e.g. radios) are denied the Dunkard communion table. The radio prohibition was once more promptly and noisily upheld...