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...only last week's announcement released the Nationalist divisions, who have been opposing the Communists for ten years, to fight Japan. It brings to China's aid about 100,000 of the best trained, best equipped troops in Asia, and with them two of China's ablest generals: bushy-browed Chu Teh and bob-haired Mao Tse-tung. The two of them have had a longtime partnership, General Chu being the military expert, General Mao the shrewd politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chu for Chiang | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...assistant secretary, Madam Secretary Perkins decided she did not want him. She changed her mind after he, as an NRAdministrator, had settled the 1933 coal strike. Thereafter as her assistant he not only did all the Department's most important field work but got credit for being its ablest member. It was no more than natural if Madam Perkins was nettled when labor leaders who had known Ed McGrady for years turned to him instead of her, when Hugh Johnson said of him: "He is a man." At least once she drew herself up in dignity and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: McGrady Out | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...most numerous of Franco's foreign allies, formed only one of the three columns that closed in on starving Santander. The other two columns consisted of Navarre royalists. Moors and regular cavalry, all under command of Spanish General Jose Fidel Davila. successor on the Basque front to the ablest of all Rightist commanders, the late General Emilio Mola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: El Caudillo | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...running for last week's championship could have given any aboriginal American archer a handicap and beaten him. Indian procedure in bow & arrow hunting was to stalk a quarry until practically on top of it instead of depending on long distance marksmanship. When each of the 106 ablest bowmen in the U. S. had shot his 468 arrows, Russ Hoogerhyde was champion again, 2,865 to 2,599 for Ed Pikula of Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Toxophily in Lancaster | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Famed equally as one of the ablest and one of the most temperamental baseballers currently functioning in the major leagues, Rogers Hornsby has lost more good jobs than most of his confreres ever hope to hold. Last week the latest uproar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hornsby Out | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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