Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tokyo the respected Masaomi Hirayama, priest of Buddha, author of admired tracts concerning The Four Noble Truths and The Holy Eightfold Path, was gravely congratulated by his fellow priests, last week, on having observed for 48 years those virtues which caused the ancient sages to exclaim : "Serene and blessed is the Buddha. . . . Lo, so many distinguished nobles lead now a religious life under the direction of the Blessed One that fathers will soon beget no more children...
...Wilson Administration was the putting of these lands under the control of the Secretary of the Navy. *According to Mr. Hogan, Japan was threatening to attack Hawaii in 1921, and hence the Doheny oil storage plant was a valuable item in naval defense. Last week, word came from Tokyo that Japanese statesmen were vexed at being made the "goats" of the Fall-Doheny defense...
...wild guesses and speculations current in the Occidental press caused loud reverberations of scorn in the Levantine and Japanese press. Levantine editors remarked that the violent "Westernizing" campaign being carried on in Turkey by Kemal Pasha precludes his ever being regarded by Orientals with anything but suspicion. At Tokyo, the Board of Directors of the Pan-Asiatic Society of Japan denounced the proposed Asiatic League, saying that they propose to work for Asiatic union "along peaceful lines and not in imitation of the war like League of the West...
Expelled. Two moons have filled and waned since the S. S. Ryndam steamed from Manhattan, a "floating university" carrying 450 students, males, females (TIME, Sept. 27). Until two weeks ago, classes, lectures, excursions proceeded with fitting decorum. Then, at Yokohama, five students slipped down a hawser, escaped to nearby Tokyo, and put on there a drinking and "necking" spree at the Imperial Hotel. . . . By a vote of the Student Council aboard the Ryndam escapaders were promptly expelled, packed off for the U. S. on a returning steamer as the Ryndam steamed serenely...
...flying a 615 horsepower Curtiss, was second with an average speed of 231.363 miles an hour. Lieutenant Tomlinson, in an old Curtiss Hawk, was way behind them all. The third American, Lieutenant Cuddihy, came down with engine trouble. So did Captain Ferrarin, famed Rome-to-Tokyo flyer. Lieutenant Adriano Bacula, 218.006 miles an hour, was third...