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...Orient Japan installed a new Cabinet, whose apparent aim would swiftly bring war to the Pacific...
...strike, was the first woman to be fed forcibly in U.S. prison history. When the case was appealed Mrs. Sanger lost, but the way was opened for physicians to give birth-control advice. After she was released she stumped up & down the U.S., campaigned all over Europe and the Orient, found time to raise three children...
...committees that carry on the work of PBH is the Speakers' Committee which sponsored several talks in the West End House last year, along with some 150 others in high schools and settlement houses on subjects ranging from public health (by Med School students) to life in the Orient (by an undergraduate from Japan). Magicians, clowns, musicians, and other entertainers recruited by the Speakers' Committee filled the entertainment side of the ledger...
Died. Liza Hardoon, 78, reputedly the wealthiest woman in the Orient; in Shanghai. A Chinese, she was the blind, recluse widow of Silas Aaron Hardoon, a Jew from Bagdad who rose from night watchman in an opium warehouse to possessor of a fortune of some $50,000,000, most of it Shanghai real estate. Hardoon turned Buddhist, built a private temple within his high-walled estate...
...remembering the recent attempted assassination of Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma (TIME, Aug. 25), Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye was on a spot. Either a difficult war or a new wave of political assassinations was possible. Knowing how little the Axis had to offer, weighing the combined Allied might in the Orient, sensing the industrial and commercial profits to be gained from a Pacific peace, Prince Konoye must have hoped that some arrangement could be worked out with the stiffening...