Word: shintaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week FBI solved the mystery. Publisher Smyth, arrested with two cronies, pleaded guilty to charges that he got $125,000 from the Japs in four years, paid by Manhattan's Japanese Vice Consul Shintaro Fukushima. The down payment on June 21, 1938, was $15,000. Thereupon Living Age promptly denounced the Open Door as a perfidious British invention, sugared Jap aggression, pooh-poohed the U.S. stakes in the Far East ("so small that they would not pay the Federal tax on cigarets smoked by the nation in ten months"). The Japs guaranteed Living Age's deficit...