Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan there were further headaches. The Tokyo yen has been officially pegged at 27?, U. S. currency. With the Japanese-backed North China currency now cheaper, money-smuggling was due for a boom. That the financial situation of Japan in China (not to mention Japanese prestige there) had suddenly taken a turn for the worse was evident when Toshigo Somma, Shanghai secretary to the Japanese Minister of Finance, suddenly departed for Tokyo for advice and counsel. And in Japan proper, the Government began a census of gold which included plates, rings, antiques, but not teeth...
...February, Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York introduced a national health bill embodying A.M.A.'s recommendations. Although the bill made no mention of compulsory health insurance, it contained a provision for Federal grants to individual States for any schemes of medical care they might wish to set up. That way, of course, is a likely back alley to socialized medicine...
...lyric poem of Horace. The Sales prize of $60 was given to Karl T. Soule, Jr. '39 for his translation into Spanish of a passage from "Two Years Before the Mast," by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Thomas V. Healey '40 and Robert E. Tucker '41 received honorable mention...
Piano won the Jeremy Belknap prize of $50 for his translation of a passage from Wilkie Collins' '"The Frozen Deep" which was considered the best French composition written by a first year student. Honorable mention was awarded to Solon J. Candage...
Honorable mention for the undergraduate prizes was given to Howard S. Nemerov '41 of New York City for "The Questor-Hero", Epes D. Chase '39 of Milton for "Coleridge's Concept of Art and Its Significance in His Philosophical System," and Richard W. B. Lewis of Philadelphia for "The Christian Humanism of Marguerite de Navarre...