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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan and his associates before the Nye-Clark committee won my ungrudging respect. It has become quite fashionable amongst politicians, at least too many of them, and young writers to ascribe our entry in the War to any reason but the true one-the U. S. could not afford, did not dare, see Germany win. . . . FRED G. HUNTINGTON Attorney at Law Billings, Mont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...civilization, and to the promotion of the peace and happiness of mankind!" This is the 1936 keynote in the symphony of East Asia politics which Japan is trying to conduct. She sees herself as a newborn Britain of the 20th Century, so righteous and so strong that she can afford to be magnanimous in bearing the yellow man's burden. When Mr. Hirota in his speech last week replied to the State of the Union speech in which President Roosevelt clearly meant to excoriate Japan (TIME, Jan. 13), the words were Japanese but the tone was strongly reminiscent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Piping Palmerston | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...small Tsushima Island, Japan. Jiro Tanaka, 21, fell in love with Sumi Chan, 19, a prostitute. Protesting that he could not afford to patronize the "restaurant" where she worked, he took her away and secreted her for a month, under the floor of the bicycle shop where he worked. Summoned to appear for a military examination at his native village, Toyomizu, 75 miles away, and still in love and poor, Tanaka bought a steamship ticket home, packed his girl in a box and took the box aboard. The box was delivered to a lodging house in Hakata, made odd little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 20, 1936 | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...committee, in proposing the reviews at their last meeting Friday night, expressed the belief that a large number of men felt that a review to tie up the work was a desirable part of the educational system, and that many men could not afford the exceedingly high prices charged by the tutoring schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen to Receive Free Exam Reviews Covering Five Courses | 1/14/1936 | See Source »

...calculating machines. Special attraction was the Hall of Science, devoted to house-furnishings, electrical and otherwise. In a pre-show message sent to 5,000 house-furnishing buyers, the Hall was described as FORTY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OF IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR GETTING MORE HOUSEWARES VOLUME STOP YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS THIS RARE FEATURE. Before leaving Chicago, buyers would order merchandise to the amount of $10,000,000. The Merchandise Mart can best be described as a store for storekeepers. Eighteen of its 21 floors are packed with clothes, curtains, rugs, chairs, tables, silverware, notions, toys, dishes, jewelry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Storekeepers' Store | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

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