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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Aug. 15). Winning Nazi support last year, he definitely promised them Cabinet posts should he and other militarists succeed in setting up a Government. What Adolf Hitler was slow in realizing was that von Schleicher never had the slightest intention of allowing Nazis to run the government no matter how many votes they rolled up in a Reichstag election. Last week Hitler and von Schleicher went to the mat. Handsome Adolf, spurred on by his still more violent lieutenants, held out for complete control of the government. Sly von Schleicher offered him in turn first the Vice Chancellorship...
...Premier of the Nanking government, dragging the entire cabinet with him and sending an acid note to Chiang Kai-shek complaining bitterly at the piffling resistance to Japan put up by Chang Hsueh-liang, the Young Marshal. Sick, discouraged, disgraced, the Young Marshal offered his resignation too (TIME, Aug. 15). All the pleading of Chiang Kai-shek could not make him withdraw it last week...
...Soon correspondents thought they knew what Chiang Kai-shek was planning. In the past 50 years China has experimented with every sort of government known to the western world: absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, republicanism, communism, military dictatorship. With a Communist movement steadily growing in the upper Yangtze Valley (TIME, Aug. 15), the Nationalist government must do something about internal as well as external affairs. An opposite of Communism which China has not tried is Fascism, and last week Chiang Kai-shek was reported to be organizing a Chinese Fascismo with the 3,000 cadets of his Whampoa Military Academy...
...brother, Robert Cabel Graham, and a priest were taking him to the Loyola House of Retreat in Morristown, N. J. after sanitarium treatment for a nervous breakdown. He eluded them, leaped into McGregor Creek. Died. George Shinault, Washington policeman who killed William Hushka in the Bonus army riot (TIME, Aug. 8); of a bullet wound inflicted while breaking up a street fight; in Washington, D. C. Died, Dr. Graham Wallas, 74, sociologist, political scientist, author (Human Nature in Politics, The Great Society, The Art of Thought); in Cornwall, England. Distinguished in appearance, Dr. Wallas was a witness at George Bernard...
...obscure to be read in detail but any observer could make plausible guesses merely on the strength of Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau's recent predictions of airplane service between Europe and the Orient via the Northern Passage, Canada, northern U. S., the Pacific Coast, the Kuriles (TIME, Aug. 8). Alaskan Airways was the property of potent Aviation Corp. (American Airways holding company) which holds a 12% interest in P. A. A. It was organized in 1929 by the late Carl Ben Eielson, father of aviation in Alaska. While it enjoyed a romantic, lusty existence in a land where...