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...Japan will oppose any attempt of China to avail herself of the influence of some other country to repel Japan . . . and also will oppose any effort by China to resist foreigners by bringing other foreigners to bear against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Protectorate by Force | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...confreres. With these colleagues he lunched at Dr. Johnson's tavern. There they partook liberally of stout, and after their imbitions, they proceeded to that ancient church, St. Clement's Dane. Before the high altar they prayed for Abbott Lawrence Lowell and for Harvard. The prayers of the unrighteous avail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/21/1934 | See Source »

Even the threatened withdrawal of the Blue Eagle would be of little avail, for the Government needs motor transportation, and if all the motor companies were guilty of violating the tenets of Blue Eagleism there would be no place for the government to buy passenger cars or trucks except abroad, and the American people never would stand for the purchase of imported automobiles...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...develops, too, that the exercise of the licensing power that has been called for by President Green of the American Federation of Labor would as a practical matter be of little avail. This is because the law requires that before an industry or its units can be put on a license basis there must be a public hearing with due notice. Any such sensational procedure would take time and would mean that the hearing would afford an opportunity to try the case in the court of public opinion, which is something the motor car executives are anxious...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

Rumors are circulating through Austria that the Hapsburgs may be restored and a monster mass meeting of royalists was held in Vienna to which Chanceller Dollfuss gave his official blessing. Unfortunately, blessing his loving subjects will not be of much avail to little Dollfuss at this point; the royalist activities are not so indicative of Hapsburg as of Starhemberg strength. As might have been foreseen when Dollfusa surrendered to the Heimwher, his power is very shortly due to be curtailed and eventually to be abolished completely. Aside from the fact that the very organization of the Fascist party--which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 2/28/1934 | See Source »

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