Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond", so runs the official title of an organization which gave, one evening last week, not one but eleven dinners. Dinners in Manhattan, Salt Lake City, Denver and San Francisco, dinners as well in London, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Tokyo, Manila and the Rand. What far flung company of friends is this? They are the friends of a man who has lived a full life?such a life as few men can or even could have lived, the life of John Hays Hammond, most radically democratic millionaire...
...birth (1850) the last Shogun of Japan, Keiki, still held as military regent the power which had slipped from the Mikados some seven centuries before. When Kawamura was three years old, Commodore Perry, U. S. N., sailed into the harbor of Uraga near Yedo (Tokyo) with four ships and roused slumbering Nippon from the so-called "Oriental stagnation" from which China is now clumsily emerging...
Shortly before his death, the aged Field Marshal was present at the Imperial Shrine, in Tokyo, when a sleepy-eyed great-granddaughter of "The Restorer," Mikado Meiji, was presented to her Imperial grandfather. The tiny Princess Teru-No-Miya Shigeko, born only last December (TIME, Dec. 14), cooed at Field Marshal Viscount Kawamura. A question seemed lurking in his eyes. It is not known how great a destiny awaits Japan in the Princess' lifetime...
Died. Viscount Kageakira Kawamura, 76, Field Marshal of Japan; in Tokyo. (See JAPAN...
...Japanese yen continued last week its recent upward movement (TIME, March 1). As Chinese merchants invested heavily in yen at Shanghai and Hongkong, Japanese bankers watched the quotations creep up and up at Tokyo. Before the week closed, parch-ment-skinned board-boys 'chalked up a weird symbol meaning "One yen equals 47.312c today"-the nearest approach to parity (49.85c) since...