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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchukuo, which has thus far been recognized only by Japan and El Salvador, this abrupt exit was almost equivalent to "breaking off diplomatic relations"'-the traditional prelude to war. In the capital of Manchukuo, snow-bound Hsinking, the Japanese-directed government of Emperor Kang Te branded the fighting last week as "undeclared war" and seemed ready to fight at 30° below zero. In Tokyo, which was digging out from a record snowfall of twelve inches, the temperature was warmer last week than in Hsinking, but cooler-headed was the Japanese Government than the Government of Manchukuo. Japanese bluff...
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound...
Last Labor Day 233 unhappy vacationists bound from New Orleans to New York aboard the S. S. Dixie found themselves caught between life and death when a hurricane grounded that Morgan liner on French Reef in the Florida Keys (TIME, Sept. 16). Next morning in Washington President Roosevelt, master of the psychological moment, announced that $5,000,000 in relief money would be spent in starting a trans-Florida ship canal that would forever make it unnecessary for seagoers to risk their lives in circumnavigating Florida's long, hurricane-blistered thumb...
Strong-armed nuns bound her, placed her upon a bed. But soon as Father Theophilus began the long series of prayers and commands to the devils to depart, "with lightning speed the possessed dislodged herself from the bed and the hands of protectors, and her body, carried through the air, landed high above the door of the room and clung to the wall with catlike grips." It was necessary to pull her down by force...
Last week, for the first time since September 1934, gold was shipped from the U. S. to Europe. Stout little kegs containing $20,600,000 worth of yellow metal were headed up in the Assay Office in Manhattan, delivered to ships bound for France and The Netherlands. A reversal of the movement that has added $2,700,000,000 to U. S. gold stocks since the dollar was devalued two years ago, the shipments were caused by the dollar's recent weakness in international exchange...