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...Same night in Manhattan, Ohio's Governor John William Bricker further disclaimed responsibility for Cleveland's relief crisis (TIME, Dec. 4, et seq.). It was not a yen to finish his year with a balanced budget, but Democratic manipulations in WPA and lackadaisical local administrators that were chiefly to blame, said Republican Bricker. Lest anybody think he was still dark-horsing around for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination, he added: "In 1940, I'll be a candidate for Governor of Ohio-absolutely...
...drew this indecisive character-"blinking," as the Japanese say, "like a bull drawn into the sunlight from a dark stall"-out into the open to be Premier. He had an awful time making up his mind about a Cabinet; it took him 29½ hours, cost him 2,047 yen for 590 bottles of beer, three barrels of sake, 780 bottles of soft drinks, 910 box lunches, ten strings of dried cuttlefish and six telephones-all but the telephones consumed during conferences by eager candidates, hangers-on, advisers...
...Arbor campus, Tom Harmon, a gregarious, lantern-jawed six-footer with a Tarzan physique and a yen for swing music, was promptly nicknamed Terrible Tommy, or The Hoosier Hammer. As a freshman he got a D in English (he is studying for a radio career-probably sportcasting) but won the University trophy as the best allround athlete in intramural sports. Sophomore year he was tapped by Sphinx (junior honor society) and elected Pharaoh. Last week diverse sports enthusiasts named a baby and a racehorse after...
From April, 1933, until last week, the Japanese yen was nailed to the prestigious British pound at the rate of one shilling twopence per yen though Japan's purchases from Britain were small potatoes and the U. S. far & away her best provider. When Europe's war sent the pound hopping around between $4.68 and $3.72½, the yen hopped alongside, between 275/16? and 22⅞? U. S. money. Last week the Japanese Cabinet decided that it would be simpler to clear on New York; that the pound-pegged yen, which happened to be at 23½?, would...
...Ever since Japan took on the Chinese war, she has been buying twice as much as she has sold to the U. S. Her import balance in U. S. trade for the first seven months of 1939 was 258,000,000 yen. To replace German imports, to get deliveries before the Allies buy the output of U. S. factories, and before the U. S.-Japan trade treaty expires next January, the Japanese have boosted their U. S. purchases by approximately one-third. That put Japan on the spot...