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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More mysterious has been the abrupt decline of the Giants, who did exactly the same thing last year. Betting Commissioner Jack Doyle supplied a shrewd diagnosis: the Giants with brilliant pitchers, good fielding but no remarkable batting power, rarely win or lose by a large margin and four months of close games wear them out before the season is over. The Cubs, almost ignored in pre-season pennant predictions, were last week still scorned by the Cardinals and the Giants. Meanwhile a Cub pitcher named Bill Lee took first place in the League pitching averages with 15 victories, 5 defeats...
Soviet statesmen were pained last week by what seemed to them an unreasonably abrupt decision on President Roosevelt's part to drop the game of "Let's Pretend," begun when Washington extended diplomatic recognition to Moscow (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). The pretense, in Russian eyes, was exactly 50% of Mr. Roosevelt's making. He knew, as all the world knew, that the Soviet State has always had in Moscow the Comintern (see col. 3) which has as its avowed object the violent overthrow of the U. S. and all other non-Communist governments. Yet, knowing this...
...specially chartered ship was his brother-in-law, onetime Finance Minister T. V. Soong, China's No. 1 financier. Down to meet them swooped from the interior their common brother-in-law. Generalissimo Chiang. A minor problem first to be disposed of was the abrupt resignation 'of Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei and several lesser members of the Cabinet. Moon-faced Mr. Wang resigned "because of poor health," the others "in sympathy with Mr. Wang." Politicians, they were getting out in advance of the coming Kuomintang (National People's Party) Congress which promises to erupt with indignation...
Overshadowing every other event in the Far East this week was the abrupt appointment of Japan's arch-Fascist and patrioteer Yosuke Matsuoka as President of Japan's most potent engine of economic expansion into China, the South Manchuria Railway. This appointment ousted S. M. R.'s comparatively mild and cautious president, Count Hirotaro Hayashi, who balked schemes of Japanese jingoes to establish a Development Company for North China in which S. M. R. would hold a controlling interest. Such a company was to exploit North China, as the British East India Company exploited India a century...
...promoter, soon found himself involved in politics that had international ramifications, and before the end of his life had played a spirited-and unsuccessful-part in the greatest historic event of modern times. Hermann Hagedorn, in a friendly and somewhat romantic biography of Thompson, succeeds in showing how the abrupt widening of Western financial and intellectual horizons created confusions unlimited, bred political and moral dilemmas that robbed Thompson's triumph of all personal satisfaction...