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Clothing store models are among the highest paid Japanese women workers, getting 10 yen...
...Floating Yen. The big department stores in all major Japanese cities are now earning an average of more than 15% on investment. Japanese love to give each other little presents, and the stores have created a stupendous vogue in "gift certificates," the buyer making a present to his friend of a piece of paper which can be exchanged for its face value in goods at the issuing store...
...Peiping has been fortunate in possessing an able administration during this entire period, most of them adherents of General Yen Hsi-shan, the 'model governor' of Shansi...
...Well," said he to Peiping's Mayor Chang Yen-wu, "it seems like being home again." Turning to a group of Nanking officials, he repeated the same remark in Mandarin Chinese. Chinamen applauded...
...Model Governor" Yen Hsi-Shan, absolute ruler of Shansi Province and 70 million Chinamen, was hobnobbing last week in "mysterious seclusion" with a potent neighbor, Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang (owner of the world's largest private army - 150,000) who is still smarting under the recent discipline of the Nationalist Government (TIME, June 3). Telegrams from Governor Yen last week demanding that Chiang resign and "let China fight it out" were bluntly refused...