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...advantages of "Footsteps in the Dark" to jump several centuries from the days of Robin Hood to modern times. Surprisingly enough for his numerous back-biters, the change seems to have done Hollywood's cavalier some good. His part is that of an idle upper-cruster with an insatiable yen for detective work, so much so that he leads a double life, writing mysteries on the side. His research work leads him to an amusing set of experiences with an archaic strip-teaser and the murders which lurk in her wake. The picture is funny, inasmuch as Flynn...
...course of the U. S. Last week he stood before the Japanese Diet and sadly admitted: "This is the fifth year since the outbreak of the China conflict and yet there is no sign of a solution of the incident ... it is entirely my own responsibility. Billions of yen have been spent and 100,000 officers and men sacrificed on the continent . . . for which I must apologize to the Emperor and the people at large." Last week, Premier Konoye knew full well that if the U. S. in any way helps to keep Japan from a complete victory, he will...
Meanwhile the immediate cost of Structural Newness began to come clear. For fiscal 1941-42 Tokyo experts foresaw the greatest of Japan's many huge budgets, calling for more than ten billion yen-five billions for war purposes alone-and requiring more than six billions of new borrowing. Such a budget would be greater than Japan's entire funded debt in 1937 when the Sino-Japanese war started...
These are the machine bosses of Mexico, tough, realistic, ruthless politicians with no particular political bias, but with a great yen to build things, run things efficiently and just incidentally do a spot of getting. Also around Avila Camacho have gathered a group of brash young conservatives typified by Miguel Alemán, 36, Governor of Vera Cruz...
...families. He is in fact descended from a god who sat in on the Heavenly Conference summoned by the Sun Goddess before she sent messengers down to create the Japanese Islands. His first human progenitor was such an empire builder that today the ancestor's face ennobles ten-yen notes, and his diary, which Prince Konoye owns, is valued at $12,500 a page. Konoye's father was an intimate, and he has been a protégé, of Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen), who at 90 is almost a demigod. Prince Konoye...