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April 8, 1934

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CORN BELT ALERT TO HOOVER'S VISIT; Sees His Trip as Effort to Learn if Public Pulse Has G.O.P. Throb. REJECTS HIS PHILOSOPHY Section Is Strong in Faith That Party's Leadership Must Be Liberalized. CORN BELT ALERT TO HOOVER'S VISIT

By Roland M. Jones. Editorial Correspondence, the New York Times.by Roland M. Jones

OMAHA, Neb., April 5. -- It was certainly a less care-worn if not more cheerful Herbert Hoover who came a-gypsying through the Corn Belt during the past fortnight than the one who passed through here on his way to Palo Alto a little more than a year ago.

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Kisho Kurokawa

1934Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower and Singapore Flyer (died 2007)[โ€ ]

Kisho Kurokawa was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement.