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Meanwhile in Tokyo the Japanese Cabinet, after 14 hours of angry debate ending at 3:30 a. m., adopted a grand total 1935 Defense Budget of 1,020,000,000 yen ($295,800,000)-largest in the history of the Empire...
Last week was no time for a statesman in his position to make a speech in which the biggest word was IF, a speech calmly toying with the question of what Holland ought to do IF the dollar, pound, yen and other flexible moneys should one fine day be stabilized...
...drugstore in order to follow the life of culture and pleasure which his socially minded spouse has mapped out for him. On a golf course, Mr. Rogers is truly a sight to behold in his plus fours and outspoken golf hose. The round of gaieties only increases Andy's yen to get back to his drug store and the back-room games of pinochle with the town "doc" and when his wife drags him off to the New Orleans Mardi Gras he makes his bid for freedom by showing her that he can play with the best of them...
...slumped 5¢ to $4.91½?lowest level since last February. Up went the London gold price to a historical high of 142 shillings 4 pence (about $34.95) Down went, the Scandinavian and other currencies which are linked to sterling through the economics of world trade. Down went the yen, so that Japanese exporters would not lose the markets they have lately gained. And when the international debate about the future of sterling grew raucous, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain either lied in his teeth or confirmed the world's worst fears when he said, in effect, that...
Harvard will give the general public a chance to gratify its yen for star-gazing, when the Observatory on Concord Avenue is opened on the evening of October 22 for the first in a series of "Open Nights," which will be featured by four lectures dealing with the facts and problems of evolution as revealed by the latest astronomical investigations...