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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese forces, advancing by land and water up the Yangtze River toward Hankow, were delayed last week besieging the Chinese Lion Hill Forts 145 miles down stream near Kiukiang. Daring Chinese fliers in swift, efficient Soviet-built planes bombed and battered Japanese river gun boats, claimed to have sunk 25...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Sir Archibald Mediates? | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Meanwhile large-eared, sharp-featured President Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippine Commonwealth journeyed to Tokyo on a "recreational" visit. His recreation included serious talks with Japanese Foreign Minister General Kazushige Ugaki, a dinner attended by Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. This led correspondents to cable that the Philippine President was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Islands | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Six years ago Dean George Frederick Arps and his colleagues in Ohio State University's College of Education started a demonstration high school (grades 7 to 12) on their campus. They admitted all sorts of Columbus youngsters, charged $100-a-year tuition. Today their progressive school of 300 students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fifty-five Authors | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

This theory - which Dr. Compton admitted last week is only tentative - nevertheless bumps into the views of Belgium's Abbé Georges Lemaitre, proponent of the "Exploding Universe." Abbe Lemaitre believes the cosmic rays are fragments of a universal explosion which took place bil lions of years ago, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ray Retraction | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Last week it became apparent that United was still looking for a way out. To its stockholders. President George H. Howard sent a letter proposing to write off as market losses $434,130,478 of its $580,049,445 book assets. Announced purpose: to permit the resumption of dividends on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: United Write-Off | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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