Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the wide portal of a sumptuous residence in Tokyo a slender Pole strode jerkily. Ushered into the presence of his host, he shook respectfully a crinkly parchment hand. Soon two august heads were laid together in musical conspiracy: 1) The silky-haired topknot of Leopold Stokowski, vacationing conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony and 2) The clipped and pomaded poll of Prince Tokugawa, "the Japanese Otto Kahn," a lineal descendant of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") who ruled Japan from 1603 until the present Imperial Dynasty was restored...
Today healthy recovery conditions are signalized by three facts: 1) Japan's unfavorable foreign trade balance has been sharply reduced by wise retrenchment; 2) Money has grown sufficiently plentiful in Tokyo so that large issues of securities are again being placed there, notably the recent Osaka Municipal Loan; 3) Tourist spending in Japan is on the boom; 4) Japanese interests in Manchuria are prospering under the firm if iniquitous rule of Marshal Chang...
Nervously buying tickets, gingerly stepping in, worriedly harkening to an unaccustomed roar, certain brave citizens of Tokyo patronized, last week, the first subway to be opened in the Far East. The new line, constructed after U. S. designs, stretches from the Tokyo railway terminus to the amusement park of Asakusa one mile and a half distant...
Viscount Shimpei Goto, onetime Mayor of Tokyo, arrived diffidently at Moscow. Cornered by correspondents, he protested: "I came here on no political, economic or indeed any specific mission." Pumped by a U. S. correspondent, he said...
Married. Martin Egan, able publicity representative of J. P. Morgan & Co. and onetime newspaper correspondent for the Associated Press in London, Tokyo, Peking and Manila, war correspondent during Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, Boxer Uprising and Russo-Japanese War, onetime (1908-13) Editor of the Manila Times, personal assistant (1917) to Chairman Henry P. Davison of the American Red Cross War Council, Civilian Aide (1918) to General John Joseph Pershing; to Miss Cornelia Cousins; in Manhattan. General Pershing was best man. In 1905 Mr. Egan married in Yokohama, Eleanor Franklin, famed war correspondent for Leslie's Weekly. She died...