Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...within a decade has Japan suffered so thorough a political scandal as has been uncovered since Prime Minister Tanaka's resignation last summer (TIME, July 8). A dozen petty Tanaka office holders have been imprisoned by the present Liberal Government of Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi, on charges of corruption and bribery. Likewise jailed has been Naoyoshi Amaoka, the Tanaka president of the Board of Decoration, indicted specifically for selling "honorary decorations" to vain Japanese during the Imperial enthronement ceremonies last November and December. Sadly has the honest, industrious Seiyukai Leader watched his old ministry gather ill-fame. Tanaka...
...make sound-cinemas, believes that "everyone will soon be running to the cinema to take their music in this new form." In Chicago Louis Eckstein wrote a check for $103,458.50, half the deficit of the Ravinia Opera so that an ardently enthusiastic Chicago public might continue to have summer opera. Said he: "Art pays dividends in beauty. It cannot be expected to pay in material things...
...druggists did last fortnight, so did many another earnest business man of other occupation. For with late summer comes the crescendo of the U. S. convention phenomena and last week the movement became acute. Going to, gathered at, departing from national conventions were druggists (wholesale, retail), chain store men, credit men, life insurance underwriters, traveling engineers, bakers, merchant-tailors and designers, bankers (men, women), radio manufacturers, accountants, safety engineers, laundry owners. Traveling at reduced railroad rates they had seen new places, participated in bridge and golf tournaments, elected officers, passed resolutions, been grave...
Through the efforts of the late Dr. Morton Prince '75, four years ago, sufficient money was raised to establish the Psychological Clinic which had been housed until this summer in the laboratory on 19 Beaver Street. Since the site of this laboratory will be required by one of the Houses, arrangements were made during the summer for the removal of the clinic to its present headquarters...
...late in returning to his former haunts, but registration is the least of an old rover's worries. After vagabonding all over the map of Europe and North America it is a bit difficult to slip back into the more confined regions which his duties enforce upon him. A summer which included such varied incidents as climbing the Matterhorn (without guide) and selling kitchen ware on the plains of Kansas (without guide) necessitates a lively start for a season of academic vagabonding...