Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bland, competent Jewish Jack Pearl (German-American comic), works hard for laughs,leads around a small,bewildered dachshund, tumbles about the stage with Lyda Roberti. Like Funnyman Ed Wynn, Mr. Pearl will close his show one night a week for radio broadcasting. Meritorious are Carl Randall and Barbara Newberry who, while dancing in an easy, effortless manner, delight everybody by doing tricks with thimbles. Best tunes: "My Cousin in Milwaukee"; "Where...
...Peiping bland Japanese Charge d'Affaires S. Nakayama was asked flatly why Japan seized Shanhaikwan. "This deplorable frontier clash," said he in English, "arose from the long-pent desire of our Japanese frontier garrison to see active service and to 'spank,' if I may so express myself, the Chinese troops whom they had monotonously faced for 16 months...
...legal obligation to bear arms in war. Many a U. S. religious leader, and a large section of the Christian Press, hold on the contrary that God's will is more binding. Notable were the cases of Rosika Schwimmer, Yale Professor Douglas Clyde Macintosh and Nurse Marie Averill Bland, aliens who were refused citizenship because they refused to promise unqualifiedly to bear arms (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week it looked as if they were to be joined by Rev. Thomas Frederick Rutledge Beale of St. Paul, Minn...
...armies of Communist bandits in Central China at the very moment when diplomats of the Nanking Government were exchanging documents of recognition with the Soviet union. This paradox was accepted in China with complacence. Chinese cheered up. A caucus of the Kuomintang (Government "People's Party") at Nanking oozed bland contentment. By three almost unanimous smash votes the Kuomintang urged the Government: 1) to "encourage and intensify" the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods?this boycott having furnished the specific excuse cited by Japan for her bombardment of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 1); 2) to send money and munitions to the Chinese...
...Labor Party, Only other occurrence of Labor's convention which remotely approached excitement was a resolution presented by the tin, iron and steelworkers group that the Federation "abandon the traditional non-partisan policy and sponsor a genuine Labor Party." Bland Secretary Frank Morrison promptly pigeonholed it. Day later the convention politely cheered Charles Dukes of the British Trade Union Congress when he told its members: "We were forced to enter politics to protect the primary necessities for ourselves and for our dependents. We believe the day has come when Labor can no longer remain quiescent. Labor is entering into...