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Unlike Britain's King-Emperor, Japan's Son of Heaven provides no "courts" at which dowagers and debutantes can curtsy, but like George V, Hirohito does give garden parties. Last week 7,000 socialite Japanese, many in gorgeous court kimonos of rarest silk, and some 700 foreigners among whom missionaries, businessmen and journalists outnumbered diplomats, arrived for the Imperial...
...lounging robe, blue silk with gold edges...
...other days kings kept minstrels, to tell the world what mighty men their masters were. U. S. tycoons do not keep minstrels but sometimes they have literate friends. Such a convenient friend to Drugman Louis Kroh Liggett is Author Samuel Merwin (Silk, Temperamental Henry). Last week Liggett drugstores throughout the U. S. were featuring on their cut-rate book counters this "amazing TRUE story of a man who conceived the greatest cooperative organization in history." Because there is no such thing as a Pure Blurb and Ballyhoo Law, Publisher Boni could not be sued for misrepresentation. On the other hand...
...suffers inexplicable losses in the domestic market, astute politicians hasten to Washington, and, aided by Mr. Hearst, begin to invoke the deity of nationalism against the wicked and cunning Japanese. Yet despite their furor, figures for 1933 demonstrate that the only imports from Japan of any significance are raw silk, tung oil, and fancy crab meat...
Describing conditions that exist among Pennsylvania workers, she cited the case of a silk factory in Allentown employing young workers at "the disgraceful wage of $.65 to a $1.25 a month." It was the report of these conditions that influenced Congress to put a minimum wage law in the N.R.A...