Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pose is precisely that he is not President. Last week the Chinese Communist armies, which the Government reports "almost exterminated" every few months, were again giving Generalissimo Chiang so much trouble that he placed himself at the head of forces rushing to avenge the murder of an Australian missionary. Left in command at Nanking was the versatile and brilliant Premier of China, Mr. Wang Ching-wei. Today he is carrying the awful onus of secret negotiations with Japan, fateful to China's whole future-the future of the most populous nation in the world...
...readers, fewer critics, picked out of the spate of last year's novels a rich and strange book called The Salzburg Tales, by an unknown Australian author named Christina Stead. With her second, published last week, she made the oversight more remarkable. A needlewoman of extraordinary skill, she has made a lavishly embroidered silk purse out of the sow's ear of realism...
...bankers were jittery for the first time in three years. Peanuts started it by sinking one of the biggest commodity houses on the venerable Baltic Exchange. Then shellac threatened the City (financial district), until the distressed shellac manipulators were rescued behind locked doors. There was a sharp break in Australian gold shares, a break in tin. Last week the century-old Bradford house of Francis Willey & Co., world's largest wool dealers, was in trouble. It was apparent that British recovery was slowing, and finally there was the current political excitement...
...London-to-Melbourne air race which Sir MacPherson Robertson, Australian candy tycoon, backed with ?15,000 was supposed to demonstrate the superiority of British planes, of which one came in first (TIME, Oct. 29). But U. S. planes averaged best. To impress this superiority upon South America-and also, for the usual goodwilling-Elliott Roosevelt, 24, has lately been promoting an 18,500-mi. air derby round North & South America, to be directed by onetime Cavalryman Hugh Samuel Johnson...
...Melbourne last week Britain's Fred Perry, currently the world's No. 1 tennist, lost to Jack Crawford in the final of the Australian championship, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Said Perry, after the match: "This may be the last time Crawford and I will meet." Newshawks were quick to sense the implication: when Tilden's tour starts next year, Perry may be star attraction...