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Japanese Democracy chiefly consists of three major political parties: the "National Political" Minseito (majority), "Friendly Political" Seiyukai (minority) and Shakai Taishuto or "Social Mass Party." The first two live almost entirely upon nation-wide local graft, plus contributions from large Japanese corporations and family groups, and these two parties completely dominate the Imperial Diet. The Army & Navy have now decided that wealthy Japanese must be fleeced by semi-confiscatory taxation for the glory of the Empire, and that this glory must not be dimmed by any objections from the working class, the class from which the great majority of Japanese...
Merrily We Live (Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray; TIME, March...
Jewish doctors in Vienna last week had little hope for abatement of Nazi prejudice. Although 2,000,000 people live in the city (including 200,000 Jews), there has long been an excess of doctors in the community. Three out of ten Vienna doctors are Jews. Adolf Hitler, who once lived there as a penniless house painter thinks that the populace can get along with less doctoring. The fact that last summer German doctors were permitted to attend a Viennese X-ray congress dominated by Jews last week seemed no warrant against a thoroughgoing Nazi program...
...PROMISES MEN LIVE BY-Harry Scherman-Random House...
...produced spectacular feats of economic practice. But it has not, except for the Single Tax ideas of Henry George, produced any original economic theory. The Promises Men Live By, a 492-page volume addressed to laymen, is offered as "a new approach." Its author, shrewd, 51-year-old Harry Scherman, is president and owner of the Book-of-the-Month Club, onetime successful adman and originator of the Little Leather Library, which in two years (1923-25) sold 40,000,000 copies through such outlets as Woolworth's and the Whitman Candy...