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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With democratizing legislation on the books and the end of the war crimes trials in sight, SCAP officials began to do some hardheaded thinking. Japan's mired economy, which would sink into complete bankruptcy if it were not for American food and raw materials, had to be headed on a new road leading toward economic self-sufficiency. SCAP wanted a balanced budget, which Katayama had not been able to achieve. Heavier taxes, higher government commodity prices would be necessary. Social Democrats boggled. The crisis came at a party convention last month. Left-wingers voted against continued support...
...identified as a 37-year-old ex-convict, is one of three missing gunmen, the only participants in the January 9 robbery not yet rounded up, police disclosed. Apparently suspicious at the sight of patrol cars cruising in his area, the suspect dashed to his garage and escaped the police net in a tan automobile bearing Florida plates...
...Many people are at first sight suspicious of federal aid bills," President Conant told the Waldorf-Astoria conclave, but asserted that in the Taft measure--Senate Bill 472--"the abstention from any degree of federal control over the states is painstakingly detailed...
...Bedouin encampment. To show proper sorrow, Glubb sat for an hour before a steaming platter of rice and meat without tasting a mouthful, drying great tears on the edge of his khafiyah (shawl headdress). Then he solemnly kissed his hosts on both cheeks and drove away. Out of sight of the Bedouin camp, he opened a tin of bully beef and wolfed it down...
...program together himself, down to the musical bridges, which he whistles over the telephone to his bandleader. He dramatizes the final script in a last-minute soliloquy at home, supplying chuckles and belly laughs which are supposed to come from the audience. Says Harriet: "It's quite a sight to hear...