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...Imperial Government banned as "detrimental to public peace" three of the best modern U. S. books on Japan, all written by authors who strive to be objective and praise Japan quite as often as they damn her. Excerpts from the books banned: Challenge: Behind the Face of Japan by Upton Close (Farrar & Rinehart, $3): "Perhaps the most amusing of Japan's new industries is the reproduction of old American heirlooms-New England furniture and such. ... It is as hard for our diplomats to converse with the Japanese foreign office as for a man to argue with a woman...
...politics as in fruit, California boasts the juiciest, the most exotic. Having savored Upton Sinclair's EPIC in 1934, she celebrated 1935 by holding the longest, bitterest, most be-lobbied session of her Legislature in history, a free-for-all that ended last week on the front doorstep of Governor Frank Merriam. Today 22 States have chain store taxes. Into the heated session of the California Legislature, Progressives introduced a chain store tax on a California scale- $1 for one store, $2 for the second, $4 for the third and so on in geometric progression...
Please be informed that "undaunted Upton Sinclair" has not been in a sanatorium for 25 years. Since the EPIC campaign started, the one time I have been in a hospital was recently for about an hour while accompanying my wife to have a cardiograph record made. UPTON SINCLAIR...
...issue of TIME I read: "Undaunted Upton Sinclair, emerging from several weeks' confinement in a sanatorium...
AMERICAN MESSIAHS-The Unofficial Observer-Simon & Schuster ($2). Timely appraisals of Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Upton Sinclair and other politicians, by the anonymous author of The New Dealers...