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...eligible); in Kyoto, Japan. Best man: Prince Fumimaro Konoe, president of the Japanese House of Peers. One hundred acolytes, 700 chanting priests, 20,000 communicants crowded the ceremony. At its conclusion the bride, wearing eleven kimonos, gave away 1,500,000 fans; the groom gave away 1,500,000 yen ($420,000). Wedding gifts: a castle from Nishi-Hongwanji followers, five kinds of fresh fish (harbingers of happiness) from Empress Nagako...
...story with a gruesome punch, Pravda said that the White Guards who thus go scot free murdered the Jewish orchestra leader after kidnapping him, sending his father "your son's ears to show we mean business," and attempting vainly to get by these means 300,000 yen for their revolution...
...with the politicians, the "despised civilians." Not because he was opposed to War Minister Terauchi did Navy Minister Nagano refuse to back him. His reason, and he was probably right, was that he thought that he and Terauchi would more easily get the present Diet to vote three billion yen ($850,000,000) for the Army & Navy than perform the same feat with a Diet elected by more or less angry Japanese voters who knew the Army had forced dissolution. In Tokyo, however, it is almost impossible for a Cabinet to exist if either or both Army and Navy Ministers...
...latest reports from China, pretty much everyone as well as Japan was trying to horn in on the kidnapping, and Sian was becoming almost a forum. Expected momentarily by air was Mr. Soong. It was rumored that Mme Chiang was coming. The North China satrap Marshal Yen Hsi-shan was already represented. Other Chinese satraps were rushing their ''advisers" to Sian. If kidnapped Dictator Chiang was still alive, he had an unrivaled opportunity to show his prowess in Leadership...
This trip would cost you only $436, 175 Tael, 1250 Guilder, 200 pounds, 1250 Reichsmarks, 400 milreis, plus some cents, cash, yen, pfennigs, shillings, pence, centimos, Mexican dollars, and shirt studs...