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...three men. The first, onetime president of the monopolistic South Manchuria Railway Yosuke Matsuoka, promptly accepted the ticklish post of Foreign Minister. The second, Director General of Military Aviation Lieut. Gen eral Eiki Tojo, took the War Ministry; and the third, Yonai's Navy Minister Vice Admiral Zengo Yoshida, agreed to stay in office...
...Alexandrovsk, Russian Sakhalin, to "demand full information." But over their beer in Tokyo hard-to-convince U. S. journalists, suspicious of a publicity hoax, agreed that so far as they knew the lover of Miss Okada had been not Sugimoto but a mildly radical Japanese theatrical producer, Yoshimasa Yoshida. Sure enough, part of their suspicion was confirmed. Japanese dispatches from Sakhalin declared that the lover in the case was indeed Yoshida but still insisted that he and Miss Okada had eloped to the Reds. Final confirmation came when Soviet officials at Alexandrovsk announced they had clapped Actress Okada and Producer...
...holds a fan in front of his nose while he squeaks the names of the contestants. When sumo champions retire they have their long hair cut, sit behind the four pillars that surround the ring, act as judges in disputes. Chief referee in all sumo championship matches is Okiaze Yoshida, whose position has been hereditary in his family for 23 generations...
...University of South Dakota Yukithi Yoshida, student, who appears daily on the campus as a Japanese prince in uniform and sword, was made the victim of a practical joke. In princely rage Yukithi Yoshida drew a pistol, shot the jokester through the hand...
...fire escapes in the building, but each department was provided with collapsible canvas chutes known as "lifesacks" down which people could slide to the streets. Quick-witted clerks on the fifth floor saved many lives by twisting a life-rope from an enormous bolt of cotton cloth. Miss Hisaya Yoshida, the president's agile secretary, crawled six floors down a drainpipe to safety, nearly fainted as another girl fell to her death from the fifth...