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Wild duck always return to the scene of their birth-so good Japanese believe. Last week the 8th Hirosaki Division was assembling under orders from the Emperor for duty in Manchuria. In hundreds of well-to-do Japanese homes parents hung long silken kakemono (scroll paintings) of wild ducks in the tokonoma* as tokens to bring their sons safely home again. Those who could afford it hung duck paintings by the man whom conservative Japanese regard as the greatest living wild fowl painter: Tetsuzan Hori, head of the Tokyo and Kyoto Fine Art Schools, one of the last exponents...
...John T. Rogers, who returned the kidnaped Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley to his home (TIME, May 11). Last week it was Reporter Rogers again who, on the strength of his success in the Kelley case, was given an inside track on the kidnap case of Alexander Berg, well-to-do fur dealer. Four days, six hours after the furrier's abduction newsmen were handed copies of the following statement by the Berg lawyer, Morris G. Levinson...
...well-to-do and a débutante, a young woman who knows members willing to write letters in her behalf may be admitted to the Junior League. Last week the Junior League voted, through the Junior League Magazine's poll, 8,021-to-397 against the 18th Amendment. But the Association of Junior-Leagues of America, Inc. (23,300 members) never goes on record officially in any political question. Commented Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, national chairman of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform: "The result of the poll is one of the most telling blows...
...elected to the State House of Representatives and, with the aid of Governor Bilbo during a previous term, elevated to the Speakership where he served eight years. Later he and Governor Bilbo quarreled politically, which accounts for the skeleton. Off the stump Mr. Conner is a good-natured, well-to-do, cultured gentleman, a member of the Methodist Church, owner of the finest private law library in the State...
Into Chicago's Union League Club one night last week marched 70 well-to-do businessmen. They represented 24 different industries. Over their meeting presided Charles A. Wilson, president of the Chicago Live Stock Exchange. Their purpose : to put the Federal Government out of private business. To this end they organized the Federation of American Business, applied for an Illinois charter, hoped their movement would soon spread to other States...