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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First act of the new Inukai Cabinet fortnight ago was to take Japan's yen off the Gold Standard (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week the outgoing former Finance Minister, thrifty Junnosuke Inouye, famed for wise and adroit retrenchment, boiled over in helpless rage. "There was no technical reason for the action taken by the new Cabinet!" he charged. "It enabled a small number of persons to reap huge profits,* but it will do irreparable damage to our country's financial position!" Blandly the incoming Finance Minister, venerable Korekiyo Takahashi, said that he would not trouble to draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strong Policy | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...bless the alterations of the Basilica had come Most Rev. Pascual Diaz, plump, jolly, Indian-blooded Archbishop of Mexico; Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, Apostolic Delegate to Mexico; ten bishops and the entire clergy of Mexico City. Tourists warned by all-wise Guide Terry brought binoculars to gaze at the til ma above the high altar. After High Mass there began a solemn procession through the Basilica.* At its head was the Sacred Golden Crown, covered with brilliants, emeralds, rubies and turquoises. Suddenly, just before it was to be hoisted in place above the Virgin's portrait, sharp-eyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Quauhtlatohua's Tilma | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...half would be placed at my disposal upon taking up my residence in some State of the Union with favorable climate, the other half being invested as capital in a government bank at 5%." Dr. Jenkins was to sound out U. S. opinion but his noncommittal reply proved him wise on subjects other than bridgework. The correspondence was published last week. Dentist Jenkins' son, Leonard A. Jenkins of New Haven, let Writer Julian Seaman have it for the New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Million-Dollar Offer | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...course, have the constituent aspect that the ratification of class constitution involves, yet it nevertheless should be either decided intelligently by the members of the class or left to a wiser or more able body. The worst solution is to let ignorance decide it. Rather, might some wise but high-handed decision from above be given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Class Constitution | 12/10/1931 | See Source »

...that we do not care enough about self government. The other is that we care but cannot achieve it. In both cases, the continuance of such policies should indicate that we are better off to let a dean or class faculty adviser rule us with a firm but wise hand. The blessings of a benevolent despotism would be plenty compared with the system in force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Class Constitution | 12/10/1931 | See Source »

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