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...that the diplomats recalled was the frail, timid-seeming man, who next to Admiral Togo was perhaps the greatest of Japanese naval strategists. He was Admiral Baron Tomasaburo Kato, Premier from 1922 until 1923, an actual son of the house of Kato, whereas Premier Viscount Takaaki Kato was an orphan adopted into the Kato family...
...Orphan Kato's career. After graduating from the Imperial Tokyo University, he became the personal secretary of the then Foreign Minister, Count Okuma, and gradually rose through numerous posts in the Finance and Foreign Ministries until he was appointed Minister and then Ambassador to Great Britain. It was he who signed with Sir Edward Grey the Anglo-Japanese compact which brought Japan into the War on the side of the Allies. During his career he served as Foreign Minister in three cabinets, and was often referred to as "the least sympathetic of Japanese statesmen toward the U. S. exclusion policy...
Having read of a similar case in old Hebrew documents, Judge Vincent Brennan of the Detroit Circuit Court called mother, foster-mother and child before him, and announced, falsely, that little Irene would be sent to an orphan asylum. As the two women received this intelligence, Klieg lights flared up, concealed cinema cameras whirred and clicked. Judge Brennan, assisted by psychologists, studied the resulting films. Calling the women back, Judge Brennan awarded custody of the child to Foster-Mother Goosen because the film showed "a much more biological emotional reaction on her part" (tears, sobs, quivering lips). Julie Goosen Pryzbla...
Died. Charles D. Skirdin, adventurous prototype of Novelist Owen Wister's famed "Virginian", redoubtable orphan, daredevil U. S. soldier, able woodsman; at a hospital in Reading...
That had been an experience more searching and fundamental than loving a woman, siring children or writing histories. The boy was an orphan who had grown up, big-boned, quiet, and self-reliant, in New Mexico. He had learned Latin from a Belgian priest, life from railroad men. He told St. Peter about a prehistoric city of the cliff-dwellers that he had discovered, perfectly preserved in the high, dry atmosphere of an inaccessible mesa. He had explored the place thoroughly and gone to Washington, where he was received with scant courtesy and less attention by the Government...