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...Auction day for this year's fishing rights fell last week. As the big, bearded Russians and the little, rough-handed Japanese gathered in Vladivostok with their bids, the Soviet Government abruptly informed the Japanese that the ruble-yen rate was now 75 sen. As the yen had depreciated to 30? since the old rate was fixed, it had dragged the ruble in terms of yen to 10?. The new rate raised it to 22?. Angrily the Japanese submitted their usual bids with deposits on the old rate. None was accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: Crabs v. Railway | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...Moscow Japanese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota, before auction day came, went to see Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff to protest. Mr. Litvinoff, though he had gone to Mr. Ota's reception a fortnight ago, sent out word that now he had "no time" to discuss the matter. The Japanese Government said it had not been informed of the new rate, it was a "discourtesy" and "a serious breach of international agreement," it all proved how untrustworthy Russians are "even when matters of importance are involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: Crabs v. Railway | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...which bulges with more advertising than any other sheet in the country and never dares to say "Boo"; 4) and the Washington Post. The Post attracted little serious attention while irresponsible Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean was running it into the ground. But since Eugene Meyer snapped it up at auction last summer (TIME, June 19) it has been doing things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Johnson v. Meyer | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...less than libel, a trifle more than backstairs gossip, this writer in whose veins there must flow something more than a trace of rodent blood, exalts some who are weak and throws mud at some who are strong. . . . All this is published by a dying newspaper, recently purchased at auction by an Old Dealer-a cold-blooded reactionary-who was one of the principal guides along the road to the disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Johnson v. Meyer | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

Last week Editor Baker's fight with the Canawacta Water Supply Co. reached an extraordinary crisis. The water company had started suits against 200 of its customers to make them pay their bills. The customers had refused and their property was put up at auction. First piece under the hammer was none other than the Susquehanna Evening Transcript, which had balked at a water bill of $22.70. Biggest crowd that ever attended a Susquehanna auction gathered in the Transcript editorial room, hissed water company agents sent to bid prices high enough to satisfy their employers' claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Susquehanna | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

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