Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese doubted that Asahi would succeed. Only five months ago, when escaped War Criminal Shigeyoshi Ikeda had managed to elude all official efforts to recapture him, another Asahi task force tracked him down in less than a week at his hiding place on a remote island off southern Kyushu. This saturation system of covering the news (Asahi has a staff of 1,374 reporters, 4,066 other employees) is one of the reasons why yo-year-old Asahi (circ. 3,610,209) has an even bigger audience than the New York Daily News (circ. 2,254,644), the biggest paper...
Murayama also gave Asahi such a liberal and antimilitarist tone that nationalist gangsters beat him and bombed his house and, in 1936, soldiers with bayonets invaded Asahi's modernistic seven-story Tokyo offices and assaulted some of his successors. In World War II, the militarists "purged" Asahi, but the interlopers were ousted after Japan's surrender...
...managing editor of Tokyo Asahi is Makoto Takano, 47, who was free of any war-party taint. Meticulous and scholarly, Editor Takano landed a job with Asahi in 1929 by winning a competitive examination for graduates of Tokyo Imperial University. He recently spent three months in the U.S. as the guest of the New York Times...
Until the Russian attack of 1939 put a moratorium on her World War I loan from the U.S., Finland had never missed a remittance day. She had paid the U.S. Government more than $8,000,000 (chiefly in interest) on the original $8,281,926.17 relief loan. After World War II she began paying again, still has $13 million to go. "These remarkable people," declared New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith last winter, "appear determined in a world of forgotten principles to make their country an example of integrity...
...opera-loving San Franciscans, it was the nearest thing to an earthquake since 1906. It was bad enough that the trustee of the War Memorial Opera House had refused to let Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad sing there next season (TIME, July 25). Last week the sponsoring Opera Association Board set off a temblor of its own: if Flagstad could not sing, for the first time in 27 years there would be no opera season...