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...Tokyo Japan's divine Emperor graciously received goodwill-touring Admiral Frank B. Upham of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, 50,000 of whose seamates on 160 vessels were maneuvering four days' sailing away. The Emperor professed himself "delighted to receive the representative of a friendly nation...
...Secretary Swanson told newshawks, would be the Puget Sound-Alaska-Hawaii "triangle." Contrary to pacifists' beliefs, the fleet would at no time approach within 2,000 mi. of Japanese territory or the Japanese fleet. Furthermore, on May 3, simultaneously with the beginning of the maneuvers. Admiral Frank Brooks Upham, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet, would steam into Yokohama harbor on his flagship Augusta for a "good will" visit. While this year's Pacific maneuvers involve the greatest tonnage since the War, the Secretary pointed out that the Navy has more tonnage available than...
Interesting was the fact that Detroit's exhibition was not assembled by the best known U. S. Persian scholar, Dr. Arthur Upham Pope, but by a member of the Detroit Institute's own staff, swarthy, hook-nosed Dr. Mehmet Aga-Oglu, a Persian scholar of almost equal authority. A Russian-born Turk, Dr. Oglu probably would never have known the difference between the Timurid School (1390-1480) and the followers of Bichiter the Great if his childhood ambition had not been to become a naval officer...
...debt-ridden Chicago last week, Comptroller R. B. Upham reported that the city's five-year rout into the red had been halted, that a small counteroffensive back into the black had been launched. Issuing a preview of his 1934 report, he announced that, through tax collections, he had brought the city's bonded indebtedness down $11,000,000 from its $136,357,000 total of April 1933. Some $8,000,000 worth of bonds had been retired before their maturity dates. Chicagoans were grateful for thus saving more than $2,000,000 in interest charges...
...entails the giving up of an automobile, a radio or an electric refrigerator. Do not the continued harping on the high costs of medical care and efforts made to reduce these costs by lowering professional charges encourage this state of mind in the public?"-Dr. John H. J. Upham, chairman of the board of trustees...