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...came to that, however, a more radical form of nativism had its day. The 1930s and 1940s were not just a time of incessant warfare but, especially the early 1940s, also of cultural purification. Even the eminent writer Tanizaki Junichiro argued in those years of intense nationalism that foreign loan words, mostly from Chinese, should be purged from the Japanese language. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, such popular American cultural products as baseball and Hollywood movies were forbidden. This policy was not designed to impress foreign views of Japan, but was in line with official propaganda, touted all over...
...said the events following his loan caused him to reconsider...
Todd E. Plants `01 the chair of the council's Student Affairs Committee, said the council should assume responsibility for the loan to halt Gee and Dasgupta's growing credit card debt...
...shot at a Wall Street firm and instead going to Harlem to operate a restaurant, travel agency and homeless shelter. Harlem enjoyed a rebound, but after taking a position as New York State housing commissioner, Holland ran into some business setbacks that caused him to default on a loan. He sold his businesses, resigned from the housing post and went to work for a Harlem-based law practice. Today Holland is being encouraged to run for Westchester, N.Y., county executive. He has married, moved to suburban Yonkers and had three kids. "You don't quite know where you're going...
...Example: Bush is proposing the elimination of federal loan guarantees for people who buy commercial vessels like oil tankers and cruise ships built in American shipyards, calling them unnecessary subsidies...