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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another goal won gloriously by Italians last week justified the electric signs set up in Rome to welcome back Italy's Air Armada from the Chicago Exposition with this blazing boast: . "At the Order of Il Duce All Goals Are Reached!" (TIME, Aug...
...Kaishek who had made and is striving to keep a precarious peace with Japan. For weeks Chinese patriots sent fighting funds to War Lord Feng, who had fancy arm bands with fighting mottoes expensively stitched on his soldiers' sleeves, then suddenly announced, "I am going into retirement" (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week the Government of slim, shrill Generalissimo Chiang had to send a private train to bring huge, rumbling War Lord Feng triumphantly home from Chahar. He reached Peiping like a conqueror, traveling with an entire regiment as his bodyguard, grinning and cracking his barnyard jokes at "Chiang...
...Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes worked like a nailer to entrench his new Government (TIME, Aug. 21). Most of Havana was gay and businesslike again, even though shots were heard every few hours as long-oppressed Cubans continued their man hunt to kill every member of ousted Tyrant Machado's detested terrorist squads, the Porra, blamed by all Cuba for countless political murders and ghastly torture of prisoners. Meanwhile the big white Cuban problem which most worried Provisional President de Cespedes, U.S. Ambassador Welles and President Roosevelt was-and seems likely to remain-sugar...
...could make the Assumption seem more glowing and real than the imagination of the pious or the brush of a great painter. Celebration of the Assumption as a feast followed soon after belief in it grew up. In about the year 700 the date for it was fixed at Aug. 15. Popes have declared the Assumption is a probable opinion, but none has yet solemnly incorporated it in the Church's articles of faith (despite 200 bishops having petitioned to this effect in 1870), as are the Virgin Mary's other three "privileges" - perpetual virginity, freedom from...
Presenting their side of an old debate, sportsmen last week declared that: 1) Recent surveys in the U.S. and Canada indicate no alarming shortage of waterfowl, except brant, on which, because they have been so hard hit by the disappearance of eel grass (TIME, Aug. 21), the Advisory Board recommended a closed season; 2) on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, where most natural duck food has disappeared, and in the built-up Illinois valley, wintering waterfowl depend on sportsmen's grain for their food supply; 3) stoppage of baiting would close many a shooting club, throw many a bayman...