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...voting, which usually takes 30 minutes, lasted four hours. Next day, opposition members broke up a committee studying the coal bill. Manfully 57-year-old Banboku Ono, general secretary of the Liberal Party (which is conservative), slugged it out with the 49-year-old Socialist chairman of the House Steering Committee, Inejiro Asanuma. Other members-plus the stenographers-joined the battle, using notebooks for ammunition...
Each morning at sunrise Japan's most important sitting-down soldier, Premier General Hideki Tojo, rides Tokyo's streets for half an hour. Policeman Ono was overcome with trepidation one morning as the General dismounted before his box and thanked him for guarding the capital's matutinal peace...
...cruiser anchored off tiny Cocos Island, 500 mi. west of Panama, where Vincent Astor had told the President there was good fishing. From its davits the President's special fishing launch splashed into the blue waters. All hands applauded when the President hooked, played and landed a 50 lb. ono (mackerel-like fish). Franklin Jr.'s ono had its tail snapped off by a shark as it was being pulled into the boat. A Marine evened things up by pulling out his gun, shooting the shark...